Topic: For show - Bohemian pressed glass perfume bottle.

[Anne E.B.]

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.

[Anne E.B.]

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

[Paul S.]

cut decoration surely, Anne, rather than pressed?          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.

[Anne E.B.]

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 but they are mostly more recent hand blown ones.

[Paul S.]

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                      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.