Perfume Flask
date: label: date made
content: ca 1880
notes: label: Description
content: Silver-mounted, conical, fluted, clear colorless glass bottle topped by a hinged ball or globular cap with an S clasp closure; interior cork stopper has a faceted ball finial. Seamed cap has chased C scrolls and bellflower festoons forming reserves, that on top containing a townscape by water, a horse at left and two naked figures at right, and that on bottom with putti, one carrying a rod with fish. Piercework band around body features three scenes of people drinking divided by trees. Cap neck is struck "STERLING" to left of clasp and with a figural mark on clasp; flat bottom of cap and bottle neck rim are both marked "XI"; and scalloped collar of stopper finial is struck with another very small figural mark.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
label: place made
content: Europe
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Roger Pryor Templin
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.59.0602
label: catalog number
content: 59.0602
label: accession number
content: 219034
objectType: label: Object Name
content: flask, perfume
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (mounts, cap, stopper finial material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (bottle material)
label: Physical Description
content: cork (stopper material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 5/8 in x 1 7/8 in; 26.9875 cm x 4.7625 cm