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Title: For show - Bohemian pressed glass perfume bottle.
Post by: Anne E.B. on April 05, 2018, 03:37:27 PM

Just love this Art Deco ??? pressed glass perfume bottle. Quite heavy at 646g.
The nearest I can find is shown here http://www.glas-musterbuch.de/Bleikristall-1.172.0.html pages 104, 105. It shares some design features with those shown.
As far as I can tell 'Bleikristall' just means lead glass, so I can't pin it down to a particular maker as yet, but will keep on looking.
The design is lovely, particularly the knop with its sawtooth edge and vertical ridges.  I haven't included a pic. of the base, but it has a 20 point star.

Title: Re: For show - Bohemian pressed glass perfume bottle.
Post by: Anne E.B. on April 05, 2018, 03:39:45 PM

Images are may be too small and not showing the pattern detail.
I'll try to do larger ones later.

Title: Re: For show - Bohemian pressed glass perfume bottle.
Post by: Paul S. on April 05, 2018, 05:31:23 PM

cut decoration surely, Anne, rather than pressed? ;D         but, yes, agree very deco in style, and would agree either Czechoslovakia (Bohemia) or possibly German.              Forgive my ignorance, but when you say knop, do you mean the stopper  -  and does the stopper have a long drop rod?

Have you seen the examples in Ruth A. Forsythe's book - some of those really are to die for.

Title: Re: For show - Bohemian pressed glass perfume bottle.
Post by: Anne E.B. on April 05, 2018, 06:28:39 PM

Could well be cut glass, I'm sure you a right ::)  :-[ I have difficulty distinguishing one from the other especially when mould seams are cleverly hidden in the pattern and are well finished.  Yes I meant stopper.  It only has a short "drop rod", which is just the length of the neck.  The whole piece stands 6.5" high (can't figure out how to get a fraction on my keyboard ::)
I haven't got a copy of the book you mention and daren't buy one as it might lead to a whole new collection, although I guess my twelve perfume bottles constitutes a collection ;D but they are mostly more recent hand blown ones.

Title: Re: For show - Bohemian pressed glass perfume bottle.
Post by: Paul S. on April 05, 2018, 07:33:32 PM

you might try  6.1/2"  -  but honestly it's probably easier and looks less complex to simply show it as 6.5"  -  and we did go decimal here in the U.K. c. 1970  ;D                    I never tire of deco appearance - it always seems to be in fashion.

Currently there are copies of Forsythe's book on Abe Books for under £20, and if you are into 1920s - 1930s scents/perfumes, then her book is full of deco stuff - and you get a lot of tango material too.