perfume bottle

Object NamePerfume Bottle with Prince Albert; Stopper

Maker John Ford & Co.

Made FromLead Glass, Sulphide

Dateabout 1875

Place MadeScotland, Edinburgh, The Canongate

Techniqueblown, cut, encased, molded sulphide, overlay, applied, polished

SizeOverall H: 18.4 cm, Diam: 9.1 cm

Accession Number84.2.25

Credit LineClara S. Peck Endowment Fund

Curatorial Area(s)

Modern

Exhibitions

Heads of State

On ViewThe Jerome and Lucille Strauss Study Gallery

Physical DescriptionColorless, transparent ruby lead glass, white sulphide; blown, cut, encased, molded sulphide, overlay. (a) Ovoid shape, colorless on transparent ruby; flat, flared rim; waisted neck, ground for a stopper; panel-cut neck and shoulder; the sides with long cut flutes; rectangular panel on the front, enclosing a molded sulphide head of a man (Prince Albert), facing sinister, inscribed (indecipherable) at the base of the neck; rounded base; applied disk foot with cut star on the underside. (b) Diamond-faceted knop; panel-cut waisted stem; polished, tapered shank, polished base.
Provenance

Source Louis Lyons - 1984-04-06
Purchased from Louis Lyons in 1984 using funds from the Clara S. Peck Endowment Fund. Catalogue cards say that these objects were a bequest of Clara S. Peck (by exchange), and the purchase recommendation says the museum planned to use funds acquired by deaccessioning duplicate paperweights, including some given by Mrs. Amory Houghton and Mrs. Leigh M. Battson. Several paperweights bequeathed by Clara S. Peck in 1983 were also deaccessioned around that time.