Blue-colored flacon de poche decorated with lion rampant and enflamed cross potant

Glasshouse of Bernard Perrot, Verrerie Royale d'Orléans

late 17th–early 18th century

Not on view

This scent bottle (flacon de poche) was made in the Orléans glasshouse of Bernard Perrot (active from 1649 to 1709), the most famous member of an Italian glassmaking family that probably went to France as followers of Louis Gonzaga. The flacon an example of one of his inventions, the use of patterned molds with intaglio decoration to cast molten glass into small bottles, beakers, medallions, and vials and then displayed the motifs in relief. Perrot specialized in colored glass, producing agate bodies, imitation porcelain in white glass, and a transparent red glass.

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Title: Blue-colored flacon de poche decorated with lion rampant and enflamed cross potant
Maker: Glasshouse of Bernard Perrot, Verrerie Royale d'Orléans (1640–1709)
Date: late 17th–early 18th century
Culture: French, Orléans
Medium: Glass, pewter
Dimensions: Height: 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm)
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883
Object Number: 83.7.21
Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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