{"product_id":"bisque-porcelain-perfume-bottle-with-applied-flowers-basket-form-stopper-massed-with-roses-and-an-orchid-separate-shell-finial-dauber-three-parts-complete","title":"Bisque Porcelain Perfume Bottle with Applied Flowers, Basket-Form Stopper Massed with Roses and an Orchid, Separate Shell-Finial Dauber, Three Parts Complete","description":"\u003ch3\u003eThe Piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eA three-part perfume bottle in pale pink bisque porcelain, with flowers built petal by petal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003ebody\u003c\/strong\u003e is fluted, rising through a band of raised beading to a narrow neck, with a spray of \u003cstrong\u003eapplied pink roses and green leaves\u003c\/strong\u003e laid against the shoulder.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003estopper is a basket\u003c\/strong\u003e, and it is the reason to want this. Massed across it are hand-formed flowers — open roses, buds, and a \u003cstrong\u003ecattleya-type orchid\u003c\/strong\u003e with a stippled stamen cluster at its throat — with leaves worked in between them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eThe third part is a \u003cstrong\u003eseparate dauber\u003c\/strong\u003e: a slender rod finishing in a small moulded \u003cstrong\u003eshell finial\u003c\/strong\u003e, which passes down through the stopper into the bottle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eThe surface throughout is \u003cstrong\u003ebisque — unglazed and matte\u003c\/strong\u003e, so the porcelain reads as chalk rather than china.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eThe base is hand-numbered in black: \u003cstrong\u003e7491\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003ch3\u003eHistory \u0026amp; Provenance\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEvery one of those petals was rolled and set by a person.\u003c\/strong\u003e Applied porcelain flowers are made by hand at the bench: a thin sheet of clay is cut or pressed, each petal is shaped and curled, then assembled one at a time around a centre and fixed to the piece before firing. There is no mould that produces a flower like this. It is why the technique survives at all and why a basket of thirty petals costs what it costs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe idiom is Capodimonte.\u003c\/strong\u003e The name belongs originally to the eighteenth-century Neapolitan royal porcelain works, but it long ago became shorthand for the whole tradition of applied-flower porcelain — carried on through the twentieth century in Italy and, at volume, in Japan, Taiwan and elsewhere, supplying the vanity and gift trade. Pieces like this were sold as dressing-table furniture rather than as art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe three-part construction is the giveaway that it is a working object.\u003c\/strong\u003e A decorative flower basket is one piece. This is a bottle, a stopper and a dauber, engineered so the rod sits in the scent and the flowers ride on top — which means somebody expected it to be used every morning, not just admired.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe bisque finish is a deliberate choice.\u003c\/strong\u003e Leaving porcelain unglazed makes it read as matte and slightly skin-like, and it is the traditional finish for figural and floral work because a gloss glaze would fill the fine detail between petals and flatten it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eThe only mark is the hand-painted \u003cstrong\u003e7491\u003c\/strong\u003e on the base — a model or mould number written by a decorator, not a maker’s mark. No factory or country is indicated, and the piece is offered \u003cstrong\u003eunattributed\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003ch3\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n  \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eObject\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBisque porcelain perfume bottle in three parts — bottle, basket stopper and dauber\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n  \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eDimensions\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eApproximately 6 in tall assembled\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n  \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eForm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFluted body with a raised beaded band and applied rose spray at the shoulder; basket-form stopper massed with applied flowers; separate slender dauber with a moulded shell finial\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n  \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFlowers\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHand-formed and applied — open roses, buds, a cattleya-type orchid with a stippled stamen cluster, and worked leaves\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n  \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFinish\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBisque — unglazed matte porcelain in pale pink, white and green\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n  \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMarks\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHand-painted 7491 to the base — a model or mould number, not a maker’s mark. Offered unattributed.\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n  \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eEra\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eTwentieth century, in the Capodimonte applied-flower tradition\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n  \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eCondition\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eGood, and complete in all three parts, which is uncommon — daubers are nearly always lost first. The bottle, stopper and dauber fit together correctly and the stopper seats properly. The applied flowers are crisp and well defined with their colour bright and unfaded, and the bisque surface is clean. \u003cstrong\u003eThere is minor loss to petal and leaf tips on the applied flowers\u003c\/strong\u003e, which is usual in this technique and visible only on close inspection. No cracks, no repairs and no restoration. Condition Guaranteed.\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n  \u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eAvailability\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eOne of a Kind — 1 Available\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n  \u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\n  \u003ch3\u003eWhy It Belongs in Your Home\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eThe dressing table is the one surface in a house that is allowed to be entirely decorative, and this is what it was made for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eA bottle with a basket of porcelain flowers on top is unapologetically pretty, and it works precisely because it makes no other claim. Set among a hairbrush, a dish of rings and a scent bottle, it reads as the thing the rest of the table is arranged around.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eComplete in three parts is the real find.\u003c\/strong\u003e The dauber is a thin porcelain rod that lives inside a bottle, and it is the first thing to get broken or lost — most surviving examples are a bottle and a stopper and nothing else. This one still has all of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eThe matte bisque surface is what makes it sit well with other things. Gloss porcelain bounces light and shouts; bisque absorbs it and reads as soft, which is why it keeps company with linen, brass, old mirror glass and painted wood without competing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eIt does not have to go in a bedroom. On a bathroom shelf, a powder-room windowsill, or a bookshelf among small objects, it does the same job — a small piece of handwork that rewards anyone who leans in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eAnd it still works. Fill it, drop the dauber, and it does exactly what it was built to do in a way no modern bottle does.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eA note on care, and the first rule matters most. \u003cstrong\u003eNever wash it and never soak it.\u003c\/strong\u003e Bisque is unglazed and therefore porous — water carries dirt into the surface and stains it permanently, and there is no way back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDust with a soft dry brush, never a cloth.\u003c\/strong\u003e A cloth catches on petal edges and snaps them off. A clean makeup brush or a soft artist’s brush reaches between the flowers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLift it by the body, never by the stopper or the flowers.\u003c\/strong\u003e Applied petals are the thinnest porcelain on the piece and they break under almost no pressure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eKeep it out of direct sun, which yellows unglazed porcelain, and store the dauber in the bottle rather than loose in a drawer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Viridian Eclection","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48047805628521,"sku":"VE-0769","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/viridianeclection.com\/products\/bisque-porcelain-perfume-bottle-with-applied-flowers-basket-form-stopper-massed-with-roses-and-an-orchid-separate-shell-finial-dauber-three-parts-complete","provider":"Viridian Eclection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}