Scent flask
Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Bottle is cylindrical shape with glass wall in center dividing its length into two compartments. Wide, gold metal bands at each end, hinged to wider gold bands which hold piece of ruby glass with flattened spherical ends extending beyond, the two metal parts hinged to form covers with spring catcheds. Wad of chamois in each compartment
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Mrs. John Innes Kane
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1926-37-261
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- glasswares
- Decorative Arts
- Scent flask
- Medium
- Glass, gold mounts
- Dimensions
- H x diam.: 6.9 x 1 cm (2 11/16 x 3/8 in.)
- made in
- USA
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1926-37-261
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4fcd77074-0501-4a96-a969-b7cc58b38016
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