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Porcelain scent bottles were meant for display, and these bottles would have stood proudly on a lady's dressing table. They did not come with perfume inside. Liquid fragrance was purchased separately and then decanted into one's favorite bottles.
Figure 2
 Japanese Imari-inspired design with some underglaze blue, and gilt and enamel overpainting. Mark on base dated 1800-1825.
Detail of gilt over-painting shown at right.
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Figure 3
This Japanese Imari-inspired design is the same as that shown at Figure 2, though slighly smaller, and some of the gilt has rubbed off. Mark on base dated 1800-1825.
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Figure 4
Pair of green scent bottles with heavy gilt over-painting, including raised gilt pearls and a variety of insects. The white central medallions filled with flowers. Although this looks like a matched pair, they were actually made at different times. The one on the left has a Derby mark dated 1770-1782, and the one on the right has a mark dated 1800-1825. Clearly the same design patterns were still being used.
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Detail of the floral and insect painting shown at right.
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Figure 5
Another Japanese Imari-inspired design, with underglaze blue decoration as well as gilt and enamel over-painting. Mark on base dated 1800-1825.
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Figure 6
 This Imari-inspired design is very close to the one in Figure 5, with similar background flowers and the large flower on the neck. Mark on base dated 1800-1825.
Detail of gilt and enamel over-painting shown at right.
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Figure 7
 Yet another Imari-inspired design, this one using pink more prominently. Mark on base dated 1800-1825.
Detail of gilt and enamel over-painting shown at right.
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For more information on porcelain scent bottles, see these sources:
Linda Brine and Nancy Whitaker, Scent Bottles Through the Ages, self-published, 1998.
Kate Foster, Scent Bottles, The Connoisseur, 1966.
F. Brayshaw Gilhespy, Derby Porcelain, Spring Books, 1961.
Geoffrey A. Godden, Encyclopedia of British Pottery and Porcelain Marks, Schiffer Publishing, 1964.
Geoffrey A. Godden, An Illustrated Encyclopedia of British Pottery and Porcelain, Bonanza Book, 1965.
Bernard and Therle Hughes, The Collector's Encyclopedia of English Ceramics, Abbey Library, 1968.
Edmund Launert, Scent and Scent Bottles, Barrie & Jenkins, 1974.
Madeleine Marsh, Perfume Bottles, Miller's, 1999.
Heiner Meininghaus and Christa Habrich, Five Centuries of Scent and Elegant Flacons, Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 1998.
Alexandra Walker, Scent Bottles, Shire Publications, 1996.
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