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Scent Bottles (Shire Library) By Alexandra Walker
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- Paperback
- Title
- Scent Bottles (Shire Library)
- ISBN
- 9780852639092
- EAN
- 9780852639092
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing USA
- Topic
- Glass & Glassware, Beauty & Grooming, Bottles
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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 bottles were made in a wide variety of forms ranging from the highly luxurious to the amusing bakelite containers of the 1920s and 1930s. About the author Alexandra Walker has worked at the Harris Museum and Art Gallery in Preston since 1975. Her interest in scent bottles developed from working with the collection of over 2700 examples in the Mrs French bequest to the Harris Museum.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN-10
0852639090
ISBN-13
9780852639092
eBay Product ID (ePID)
66163912
Product Key Features
Language
English
Topic
Glass & Glassware, Beauty & Grooming, Bottles
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in.
Item Height
0.1in.
Item Width
5.6in.
Item Weight
3.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Book Title
Scent Bottles
Series Volume Number
Vol. 210
Lc Classification Number
Nk5440.B6
Table of Content
Introduction The earliest scent bottles Scent containers from the medieval to Stuart periods The eighteenth century The nineteenth century The twentieth century Further reading Places to visit
Copyright Date
1996
Format
Trade Paperback
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
748.8/2/075
Series
Shire Library
Publication Year
2008
Dewey Edition
20
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Antiques & Collectibles, Health & Fitness
Number of Pages
32 Pages
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