unknown French goldsmith ruby glass scent flask with silver-gilt mounts

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 GBP

bidding is closed

Description

silver, glass
9.2cm, 3 5/8 in high

chained stopper, with discharge mark only probably the Paris salmon smallwork mark for 1744-50

Literature

Exh. Cat. Couven-Museum Aachen, 2003, no. 103
Heiner Meininghaus and Christa Habrich, Exhibition catalogue, Düfte und edle Flakons aus fünf Jahrunderten, Medizinhistorisches Museum, Ingolstadt, Stuttgart 1998, no. 138

Catalogue Note

See catalogue note at Sothebys.com