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

Glasshouse of Bernard Perrot, Verrerie Royale d'Orléans

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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.

Blue-colored flacon de poche decorated with lion rampant and enflamed cross potant, Glasshouse of Bernard Perrot, Verrerie Royale d'Orléans (1640–1709), Glass, pewter, French, Orléans

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Blue-colored flacon de poche decorated with lion rampant and enflamed cross potant, Glasshouse of Bernard Perrot, Verrerie Royale d'Orléans (1640–1709), Glass, pewter, French, Orléans
Blue-colored flacon de poche decorated with lion rampant and enflamed cross potant, Glasshouse of Bernard Perrot, Verrerie Royale d'Orléans (1640–1709), Glass, pewter, French, Orléans

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