Faience Perfume Bottle and Stopper, Quimper France, C20th
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| Total Amount: | £34.72 |
| Number of Bids: | 4 |
| Location: | United Kingdom |
| Highest Bidder: | User 1404 |
| Auction Start: | 24/09/25 17:20:00 UTC |
| Auction Ending: | 09/10/25 19:10:00 UTC |
| Auction Finished : | 09/10/25 19:10:01 UTC |
Faience Perfume Bottle and Stopper, Quimper France, C20th
A tin glazed pottery perfume bottle and fitted cork and wood stopper, heart shaped with a short cylindrical neck, the front face with a cream craquelure glaze and painted with a Breton peasant standing amidst flowers, the reverse similarly glazed and with a fleur de lis, the sides and neck glazed blue with slight enamel loss to the top rim revealing the earthenware body below. The form here and the style of decoration with its emphasis on French and specifically Breton elements point to manufacture by one of the potteries at Quimper in Brittany, France. Production began there in the late seventeenth century and has continued almost without a break until the present day. Slightly rustic in style, Quimper pieces display a traditional Breton influence in their decoration. One design, which became typical, is the ‘petit breton’, a naive representation of a Breton man or woman in traditional costume which became popular in the late nineteenth century and is still the most desirable todayThis bottle has the Breton gentleman on its front face and a fleur de lis to the reverse. The stylised lily, known as fleur de lis, became a symbol of the French royal family and France in general. It occurs, for example, on the Canadian flag but was also regularly used as a decorative motif by the Quimper potteries. These bottles can date to as early as the beginning of the twentieth century but a later time of production is probably a safer assumption here, perhaps to the 1950s. Few of these bottles survive with their fitted stoppers and the traces of cork to the top interior suggest that this stopper has been in place for some time and probably since the date of manufacture.
| Size: | Ht 8cm (overall), 7cm (bottle), Width 5.8cm (max), Depth 3.5cm (max), Stopper 2cm |
| Weight: | 90gm |
| Date: | 1950s |
| Condition: | Good condition generally, very slight glaze loss at the top of the bottle with minute traces of cork remaining, but the glazing overall in excellent condition with no losses. |
| Estimate: | £50 – 80 |
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