Ornate Perfume Bottle

Ornate gilded metal and glass perfume bottle with a central figurine, late 19th century, Bohemia/Europe. The gilded metalwork — a technique related to ormolu, or gilded bronze — was particularly fashionable in the 18th and 19th centuries for adorning decorative objects with a rich, lustrous finish. This bottle combines intricate cast metalwork with decorative glass in the elaborate style favored by Bohemian craftsmen of the period.