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Rare Aesthetic Movement sterling silver, gold gilt perfume in original etui
Reference #: 8656
Status: for sale
Dimensions: click on these 3 photos for size information: photo1 and photo2 and photo3
Condition: excellent and all original
Year: London hallmark for 1869; makers mark GB
Price: $1595
Description: Exceptional, perhaps one of a kind, Victorian sterling silver and gold gild perfume in its original etui.
This lovely scent bottle is a wonderful example of the aesthetic movement; a time when Japanese art and symbolism had an important influence on jewelry of the late Victorian period.
In the mid 1850's, the US and European signed treaties with Japan. This opened up the East to travelers and a passion for all things Japanese and Oriental followed. This was the beginning of the Aesthetic movement in jewelry and art. Art and jewelry from this period is often decorated with stylized butterflies, bamboo, birds, water reeds or cattails and other items found outdoors in Asia.
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