The perfume bottle attributed to the Karlsthal glassworks, of tapering form with a pointed stopper, inset with brightly coloured lengths of latticinio tubing and various composite canes, 13.5cm high, the scent bottles possibly by Bigaglia or Franchini, of flattened ovoid form, the marbled glass combining bright colours with aventurine, the embossed metal mounts with suspension chains, 7cm long excluding chains (stopper stuck) (3)

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Provenance
Sotheby's sale, 2 July 1979, lot 177 (part) (perfume bottle)

The canes in this bottle are unmistakably those of the Karlsthal glassworks circa 1841-42 or a little later. Some of these canes bear a strong similarity to technical drawings of millefiori rods made by Franz Pohl around 1837, see Peter von Brackel, Classic paperweights from Silesia/Bohemia (2010), p.43. Compare also to the canes used in the two small vases, a bottle and a cream jug illustrated and discussed by von Brackel (2010), pp.48-9, figs.62-4.

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