Colored glass salt bottle silver cap nineteenth hallmark boar

Here is a nice little salt bottle, it has a colorful glassware of beautiful workmanship. The cap is made of silver. Boar hallmark, plus another hallmark to identify on the ring. Usually concealed to be revealed only at the fateful moment of the fainting of their owners, salt bottles are fascinating testimonies to the taste prevailing in the romantic era. Women's toiletries, they have been present since ancient greece and rome and experience phenomenal growth in the seventeenth century, especially at the court of louis XIV. The fashion of these small bottles exploded even more in the eighteenth century before giving rise to the most diverse creations in the following century. The classic shapes are however adopted by the majority: flattened, cylindrical or piriform, some of these bottles are even equipped with a chain and a ring to be kept in the hand. This bottle is in a superb state of preservation even if it does not have a cap inside. Our many photos allow you to appreciate the quality of the object. For the state thank you to detail the photos. M1285. Feel free to zoom in. Photos are an integral part of the description. Size: Height with ring: 5 cm. Height without ring: 4.4 cm. Thickness: 0.8 cm. Width: 3.1 cm.

Ref. : FWB8ZB6H