Created in a beautiful sky blue with silver flecks and a vibrant blue stone set into the intricate brass lid.
Included within the glass are multiple miniature portraits.
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These perfume bottles were made by pressing globs of glass mixed with foil onto the bottles. Another interesting technique is the usage of goldstone threading to create patterns or stripes in the glass. This was sparkling goldstone effect was achieved by adding minute particles of copper into the colored molten glass threads then inlaid onto the hot surface of the bottle.
Millefiori canes with tiny portraits in them decorate some of the most rare of all examples.
The scent bottles typically have ornate gilded brass flip top caps crowned with a glass or semi precious faceted jewel, the caps are usually suspended from chains attached to a ring to hang on a chatelaine or finger.
Most of the bottles date around the 1860s during the height of the Grand Tours. The two most well known makers of these bottles were the highly talented Italian glass artists, Giovanni Battista Franchini and Antonio Salviati.
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