Bidspirit auction | A Collection of Porcelain and


A Collection of Porcelain and Glass Miniature Perfume and Snuff Bottles Including a Limoges Trinket Box - A group of decorative miniature vanity items featuring porcelain, glass, and metal components. The collection includes a heart-shaped porcelain trinket box marked to the interior lid LIMOGES FRANCE. This box is decorated with a hand-painted floral spray and gilt scrolling, featuring a bow-form metal clasp. It contains an internal glass perfume vial with a knurled brass screw cap. Also present is an inside-painted glass snuff bottle of flattened ovoid form, depicting a traditional landscape scene with a figure in a boat, fitted with a purple stone cabochon stopper. The lot further comprises a light blue baluster-form porcelain perfume bottle with hand-painted floral decoration and a tiered brass cap; a white porcelain perfume bottle of flattened octagonal form decorated with a blue sailboat scene in the Dutch style and a brass cap; and a heart-shaped frosted glass perfume bottle with a brass cap. Completing the collection is a spherical blue ceramic scent diffuser or pounce pot with a perforated top, mounted on a fluted gilt-metal base. Snuff bottle height approximately 6.5 cm. Trinket box width approximately 5 cm.