Description
Description: Vintage French glass of Parfum D’Orsay Maison, transformed in China into a snuff bottle, by filing the neck and adding a silver metal collar.
Foot/base: Flat base
Mark: Etched “D’Orsay Paris” and a hand incised number 42
Dating: About 1915 – 1920
Material: Glass.
Size: 70 mm high
Stopper: Green glass with bone spoon
Provenance: Antiquarian market
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Notes: This bottle has been bought together with the two Chinese quartz bottles S11 and S12. The original perfume bottle has been brought to China probably by some member of the French Concession in Shanghai at the first decades of 20th century. It is known that D’Orsay employed a number of leading French glassmakers, including Baccarat, Nancy, Julien Viard and even Lalique. Certainly, after having been discarded the bottle has been recycled by, maybe, a Chinese worker/employee at the Concession. Despite being then not of strictly Chinese origin, it is worth to keep it for its historical connection. Remnants of snuff on the inner side.
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