Purse Perfume Bottle: Transparent Pressed Glass Sunrise Form & Jeweled Filigree of Tombac Violet Cabochon Adorned & Screw top with pipette /glass small stick
Weight 48 gr or 1.69 oz.
Dimensions 52 x 47 x 18 mm // 2 x 1,6 x 0,7 inches
The fine vintage pressed clear glass bottle in the Form named Sunrise is adorned with a simple ornamented delicate jewelled Filigree produced from Tombac which covered suitably the whole of the bottle. A violet Cabochon glass jewel is incorporated into the yellow filigree mounts to complement the color of the bottle and magnify its beauty. The bottle is used to use for filling with perfume or cosmetic oil. with perfume or cosmetic oil. Each of these bottles is an astounding work of decorative applied art or useful art. It is a small handmade masterpiece. The old technology of their manufacture had included a work of a skilful craftsman glass-blower and a professional artist who designed its pressed forms and ornaments.
Such a bottle was manufactured in a small series in the period from the 1930s to the 1960s in the North Czech region in the small factories situated in different small Czech cities which made costume jewellery for export and the native market. Unfortunately, It is impossible to date each bottle or to establish a place where it was made. The small Czech town Jablonec nad Nisou was a world-famous centre to make costume jewellery but there were and other places in the region. These antiquarian small bottles are pleasant to hold in one’s hand and they create a state of mind of the past. It will be a perfect gift for a birthday and Christmas and for other events.
Filigree — Lace-like ornamental work of delicate or intricate design made of metal
Tombac — The main and preferred metal was a copper and zinc alloy called «tombac». This material was used because it was pliable and relatively inexpensive. The metals workers so-called «Gürtlers» would also use brass and bronze. Because of the various guilds established before 1900, however, Gürtlers could not work with precious metals such as silver or gold. Tombac was cut into strips and placed in an iron mould or stamping tool that had been engraved very precisely into a working pattern.
Shot story of the industry
The beginning of the 20th century introduced a completely new principle into the production of commercial perfume bottles and the production of utility artistic glassware as a whole: the utility flacon with artistic ambitions. During the 1910s, this type of production based on employing quality metal moulds was developed in France. The idea of artistic pressed glassware was developed in Czech Lands and many Czech companies in addition to the production imitating French patterns also created their designs. Opaque or transparent glass masses were also popular during the 1930s when interesting types of coloured glass masses were developed.
New hot-shaped and pressed flacons, in addition to the ever-much-sought-after traditional patterns, appeared in connection with the revival of interest in industrial design after 1957.
As early as 1970, however, the worldwide withdrawal from decorative artistic glassware bottles had become apparent - such glassware started to lose its position with the continuing development of sophisticated commercial packaging.
Condition
As a whole, this small perfume bottle seems to be in perfect condition accordingly to its age which may be 90 - 60 years old. There are shabbiness of metal cover. The bottle was not in use it is from the rest of a storage of a small factory. Attention. It would be possible that its old glue can not be keeping the glass Cabochon and metal part together. To resolve such a small problem one needs a drop of any modern glue for glass and metal.