scent bottle
Object NameCameo Scent Bottle with Flowers
Manufacturer
Thomas Webb and Sons
(f. 1837)
Manufacturer(silver)
Sampson Mordan & Co.
Made FromGlass, Silver, Cork
Dateabout 1880-1900; 1879 (silver)
Place MadeEngland, Amblecote
TechniqueCased, blown, carved, assembled
SizeOverall H: 10 cm, W: 3.9 cm, D: 2.9 cm
Accession Number2016.2.4
Credit LineGift of the Ennion Society
Curatorial Area(s)
On ViewEuropean Gallery
Physical DescriptionCameo Scent Bottle with Flowers. (a) Translucent red and white glasses, silver, cork; cased, blown, carved, assembled. Flattened teardrop-shaped white on translucent red cameo scent bottle. Bottle decorated with five-petaled flowers and foliage suspended from top of bottle. Threaded silver collar fixed to rim. (b) Undecorated globular silver cap with cork insert (cap has yellowish hue).Provenance
Source
Susan Kaplan Jacobson
- 2016-09-09
Susie Silbert was contacted in 2020 by Patricia Ali, daughter of the work’s owner Marion S. Wyatt. The piece had been the cornerstone of her mother’s small collection of Steuben and Ali and her brother were both under the impression that the work had been left as a promised gift to the Museum. However, after checking with Brandy Birch, Registrar, we learned that while the Museum had been contacted about the steps to establish a promised gift, none of them had been taken. According to Ali, the piece had been purchased by her father from Steuben and displayed in a special cabinet which may also have been purchased from Steuben. Ali’s parents played bridge with Jeanne Buechner and her husband, relatives of Thomas Buechner who lived in Birmingham, Michigan, as did Ali’s parents. Ali recalls her mother telling her that someone from the Museum came to evaluate the work sometime, likely in the 2000s. Also, Marion Wyatt (Ali’s mother) traveled to the Museum with Buechner’s Michigan relatives sometime between 1987 and 1990 and may have spoken with the Museum about donating the piece at that time. We were unable to recover records of this conversation. The proposed sculpture may be the piece put up for auction and passed in 2009 or 2010:Passed, DuMouchelles Fine Arts Auctioneers & Estate Appraisers, Detroit, Michigan, November 12, 2010. Auction at the Gallery, lot 110005. Passed, estimated $4,000-$5,000. Passed, Bonhams, Los Angeles, California, September 29, 2009. 20th Century Decorative Arts Sale, lot 1173. Passed, estimated $15,000-$20,000.
Susie Silbert was contacted in 2020 by Patricia Ali, daughter of the work’s owner Marion S. Wyatt. The piece had been the cornerstone of her mother’s small collection of Steuben and Ali and her brother were both under the impression that the work had been left as a promised gift to the Museum. However, after checking with Brandy Birch, Registrar, we learned that while the Museum had been contacted about the steps to establish a promised gift, none of them had been taken. According to Ali, the piece had been purchased by her father from Steuben and displayed in a special cabinet which may also have been purchased from Steuben. Ali’s parents played bridge with Jeanne Buechner and her husband, relatives of Thomas Buechner who lived in Birmingham, Michigan, as did Ali’s parents. Ali recalls her mother telling her that someone from the Museum came to evaluate the work sometime, likely in the 2000s. Also, Marion Wyatt (Ali’s mother) traveled to the Museum with Buechner’s Michigan relatives sometime between 1987 and 1990 and may have spoken with the Museum about donating the piece at that time. We were unable to recover records of this conversation. The proposed sculpture may be the piece put up for auction and passed in 2009 or 2010:Passed, DuMouchelles Fine Arts Auctioneers & Estate Appraisers, Detroit, Michigan, November 12, 2010. Auction at the Gallery, lot 110005. Passed, estimated $4,000-$5,000. Passed, Bonhams, Los Angeles, California, September 29, 2009. 20th Century Decorative Arts Sale, lot 1173. Passed, estimated $15,000-$20,000.
Corning Inc.
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