Vicky Thomas Antiques has dated this piece to the 1910s.
Depicting a cuffed ladies hand in frosted glass, (the nails and blouse button picked out in transparent glass) she holds aloft a bottle for keeping liquid soaps, foams, perfumes or indeed anything that a stylish person might want to keep in their boudoir. They really sum up the decadent feel of Paris during the Belle Epoque / Art Nouveau period.
The bottles are clear colourless glass, but I have also included photographs with them filled with bath oils, so that you may get a clear impression of what they look like when containing coloured liquid.
Around the tops are glass collars ( please note in the photographs, that the lines on these are not cracks, just the moulding lines where the collars were applied at the time of manufacture ). They are in good condition, but have the surface wear that is to be expected from a well loved item of this age - they both display absolutely beautifully as I hope the photographs show.
On the cuff of both is the word ‘DEPOSE’ (translating to ‘registered’), and the smaller bottles bears the pressed letter ‘L’ to the base.
The tall bottle measures 30cm tall, 32cm with stopper in, and its smaller sister is 24cm tall, 26cm with the stopper in. The Larger of the pair holds approximately 500ml of liquid, the smaller approximately 350ml.
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Vicky Thomas Antiques has dated this piece to the 1910s.
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Pair of French Art Nouveau Glass Boudoir Bottles - Legras & Cie.
