Bottle Perfume Cristal 1810's-1820's Opaline Throat Pigeon Baccarat Saint Louis

Perfume bottle in opal crystal, known as opaline pigeon throat. Circa 1810's-1820's Empire Period - Restoration: Napoleon I - Louis XVIII - Napoleon II - Charles X. Made by the Cristallerie de Baccarat, du Creusot, or Saint-Louis. Blown crystal of pigeon-throat color. Emery cap with tiny chips at its base. ... Just sublime ... Presence of the smell of the old perfume... Dimensions: Height 10.3cm and Diameter 3.8cm. Very neat shipment. Opaline... By their finesse, their variety and their colors, whether decorative or utilitarian, they testify to a nineteenth century imbued with femininity and refinement. Behind the generic term, adopted by antique dealers in reference to the iridescence of opal, hide various materials and multiple forms retracing nearly a century of creation, from the first Empire to the time of Napoleon III. The opalization of glass, obtained by the addition of tin oxide, is known in Venice from the sixteenth century. It gradually spread to the rest of Europe, but it was in France, from the 1810s, that it was applied to a lead-based glass developed in Britain in the seventeenth century, crystal. The first national opalines in blown glass, luxury objects made by the crystal factories of Baccarat, Le Creusot, Saint-Louis and, a little later, by the factories of Bercy and Choisy-le-Roi, then took the name of opal crystal. Sober, they adopt silhouettes inspired by Antiquity, then in vogue. Tinted most often with lime, the opal crystals are a slightly milky white characterized by their glowing reflections. Other colors exist, including turquoise, blue declined in ultramarine, lavender or linen blue, but most are irregular. Little produced, yellow and jade green are now sought after by collectors because of their rarity. One hue, however, dethrones them in the pantheon of opalines: pink