Scent Bottles

Name: Scent Bottles
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ISBN: 9780852639092

ISBN-10: 0852639090

ISBN-13: 9780852639092

Edition: 1996

Authors: Alexandra Walker

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This book traces the history of the scent bottle from the alabaster containers of ancient Egypt to mass-produced commercial bottles. Perfume has been used in religious ceremony and also in medicine, for it was believed to have the power to ward off illness. Elaborately chased silver pomanders were carried during times of plague. The frivolity and luxury of scent were reflected in eighteenth-century 'toys', bottles in the form of fruit and figures in porcelain or enamel. The Victorian lady had a wide choice of scent bottles, including dual-purpose bottles which also held smelling salts or sal volatile. In the twentieth century, after Lalique's successful collaboration with Coty, commercial…

Book details

List price: $11.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 3/4/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 32
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.198
Language: English



Introduction


The earliest scent bottles


Scent containers from the medieval to Stuart periods


The eighteenth century


The nineteenth century


The twentieth century


Further reading


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