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Scent-bottle
Scent-bottle, pearlware, flat nine-sided form with moulded grooves around the sides, to one end a short narrow neck with a metal fitting and a small metal stopper with a finial formed of radiating flame-like leaves with traces of gilding; decorated with an all over transfer-print in underglaze blue of 'Cupid & Psyche' showing classical figures and putti.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 36220
Acquisition
Purchase, 1903
Measurements
Height
(cm): 2
Length
(cm): 9.5
Width
(cm): 4.8
Height
(in): 13
Length
(in): 3
Width
(in): 1
Techniques
slip-cast
forming
Applied Art
cast
forming
Applied Art
assembled
forming
Applied Art
transfer-printed
decoration
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art
Material
pearlware
metal
glaze
Location
Gallery 07B South
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