French blue opaline glass Palais Royal Souvenir Scent Bottle
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French blue opaline glass Palais Royal Souvenir Scent Bottle

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French blue opaline glass Palais Royal Souvenir Scent Bottle:
with gilt petal edge mount inset with tinted print of L’Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, in front of the Louvre, Paris. Circa 1870.

Height: 4" - 10.0cm
Width: 2" - 5.0cm

opaline

Fine semi-opaque, white and coloured glass, developed by the French in the first half of the 19th century, with a translucent quality.

Palais Royale

Small, French, gilded metal trinkets, some with Parisian scenes, many with mother-of-pearl insets. For instance, a gilded goat pulling a mother-of-pearl cart.

gilded, gilt

A very thin layer of gold applied to brass or bronze.

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