Perfume bottle with stopper

Ceramics and Glass Collection

Accession Nr.: 54.1739.1.1-2
Artist/Maker:
Egermann, Friedrich (1777 - 1864)
Place of production: Bohemia
Inscription: jelzetlen
Materials: hyalith glass
Techniques: blown; faceted; gilded; grinded; grinded
Dimensions:
height: 16,5 cm
opening diameter: 4,5 cm
base diameter: 7,5 cm
The pear-shaped body of a splayed top rim stands on a round foot with a rim of zigzag faceting, its neck has a ring the stopper forms a flower. The foot is marbled in greenish-brown colour the body is divided into nine fields of amber "lithyalin" glass. The nine fields show olive faceted niches of lithyalin. The neck is faceted into four-teen sides the ringed part has fourteen ball- faceted decorations. The bottom of the body and the neck are decorated with gilt lines. It is an excellent piece of Classicist style lithyalin glass-ware.

Literature

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  • Szerk.: Péter Márta: A klasszicizmustól a biedermeierig. Az európai iparművészet stíluskorszakai. Iparművészeti Múzeum, Budapest, 1990. - Nr. 3.42. (Varga Vera)
  • Molnár László: Iparművészeti törekvések a reformkori Magyarországon. Budapest, 1976. - Nr. 151.