Copper gilt frame perfume bottle

[Copper plated perfume bottle]

Copper plated perfume bottle, 19th century, 28cm high and 11cm wide. The old collection of the Qing Palace
On each side of the copper plated triangular vertical bracket, there is a small blue glass egg shaped door with a semicircular copper plated handle for opening and closing. Open the small door to see the blue glass bottle with a lid. The bottom of the bottle rack is a three curved support leg with a circular lifting ring attached. Blue glass doors and glass bottles are partially decorated with colored decals and painted flowers, with copper gilded edges. This perfume bottle is ingenious in design, gorgeous in decoration, and exquisite in packaging, which sets off the high-end of perfume. It is the best cosmetics used in the Qing Dynasty
On the one hand, the perfume used in the life of empresses and concubines in the late Qing Dynasty came from paying tribute. The court ministers bought imported goods and presented them to the palace when they had the opportunity, or presented them as gifts for foreign envoys when they met the emperor or Empress Dowager Cixi; On the other hand, it comes from procurement in the foreign trade of the court for daily use by the court. Therefore, the perfume used in the late Qing court were mainly famous foreign products from France, Britain, the United States, Germany and so on.

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