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Description: | A modern perfume bottle and stopper from the 19th or 20th century. This find cannot date to any earlier than this, because of the fact that a screw thread has been used to screw the stopper into the neck of the bottle. The bottle has been made from two plates of very thin copper-alloy, which have been joined together; the joint is evident on the side of the artefact. The lower end of the bottle has been damaged, resulting in the formation of a hole, where part of the copper-alloy plate has been pulled away from the other piece. The two plates, which are slightly domed to allow for the bottle to be filled with perfume, have been decorated with a floral design. The neck of the bottle extends from a collar at the top of the bottle. A screw thread is evident inside the neck of the bottle. The pin proper would have extended approximately 17mm into the bottle, although the pin does appear to be have lost some of its length. The screw thread is reversed on the pin (the artefacts can still be screwed together). An openwork floral/leaf design forms the terminal of the pin. The bottle is 36mm in length, 22mm in width and 7.3mm thick at the thickest point across the middle. The stopper is 48mm in length and 1.76mm thick. The openwork handle is 16mm in width and 1.15mm thick. Both artefacts have been coated with some sort of lacquer.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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