Antique Collectible Perfume Bottles

When you mention about the material that perfumesimple stopper with intricate designs like flowers, birds
bottles are made from, the first answer that comesor fruits. The most famous porcelain designers that
to people's mind will be glass. However, traditionally,came out from that era were Charles Gouyn and
these bottles of perfumes were also made fromNicholas Sprimont.
other materials and were even at one time, widelyOne of the interesting fact that occured during the
being used to produce different designs of bottles tolate 18th century was that both these enamel and
contain perfume. Another reason these two materialsporcelain perfume bottles had many imitations and
were used in the past was because in the middle ofthese imitations were mass produced in very large
the 18th century, glass in England was highly taxed.quantities. The organization that did the mass
Enamel perfume bottles were the trend in the 18thproduction was Samson of Paris in the 19th century.
century and formed a large part of designer perfumeHowever, these imitations have since become rare
bottles. These enamel bottles were made by largecollector's items of their own due to the lack of
perfume houses such as Bilston or Wednesbury.original samples.
From them, famous designers of bottles of perfumesThere were many reasons why perfume bottles
emerged. Some of these artist are William Beilby andwere so popular back then. One of the reason was
the Homer brothers whose work are now verythat ladies wore corsets which were very tight and
highly regarded and are considered rare art pieces.this constricted their breathing. Sometimes they will
The decorations of these perfume bottles canpass out due to the lack of oxygen in their body.
consist mostly of general landscapes and flowersThese perfume bottles not only contain perfume but
with some of the more intricate designs featuringalso smelling salts to awaken the ladies. These
portraits. These enamel bottles are very uniform inperfume bottles were also used as as form of
character, having the same characteristics and formjewellery to be worn hence explaining the numerous
of contemporary porcelain.beautiful designs.
After the middle of the 18th century, porcelain isIn the later part of the 19th century, to create more
quickly catching on to be a defacto material inunique and beatiful designs, different types of
producing unique perfume bottles. These highlyceramic and glass materials were fused together to
decorative perfume bottles were usually made toimitate ivory, with moulded or applied ornament
model after humans or animals. These designs enablerepresenting Chinese or Japanese idioms. Some of
the portion where the head was located to bethese are made to re-create the impression of
opened so that perfume can be dispensed. Earlytraditional Chinese snuff bottles with their knopped
designs included a stopper to prevent perfume fromstopper sometimes replaced with slender gold chains.
escaping the bottle. Later designers replaced the