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perfume bottle
perfume bottle

perfume bottle

Object NamePerfume Bottle and Stopper
Made FromLead Glass
Dateabout 1938-1950
Place MadeUnited States, NY, Corning
TechniqueBlown; Tooled; Applied; Ground; Polished
SizeH: 14.6 cm; Diam: 9.1 cm
Accession Number98.4.487
Credit LineGift of Design Dept., Steuben Glass, A Division of Corning Glass Works
Not On View
Physical DescriptionColorless lead glass; blown, tooled, applied, ground, and polished; a) Spherical shaped perfume bottle; top of bottle depressed with small opening; flat circular base ground and polished; b) conical shaped stopper; top circular and flat; sides tapered in to applied wafer disc; spherical knob applied to bottom of disc; cylindrical stem portruding down from knob, sides tapered in, bottom of stem rounded.
Provenance
Former Collection Steuben Glass, Inc. (American, founded 1903)
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