New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.

Bottle with stopper

Manufacturer Maurice Marinot (French, 1882 - 1960)

CultureFrench

Date1913

MediumBlown and enameled glass

Dimensions6 1/2 × 4 1/2 × 2 1/2 in. (16.5 × 11.4 × 6.4 cm)
Overall, Rim: 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm)
Base: 1 1/2 × 2 1/8 in. (3.8 × 5.4 cm)

InscribedSigned in red script: "marinot" lower, reverse.

Credit LineMuseum purchase

Object number83.579

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 119, Case 63

DescriptionBottle/perfume flask of blown colorless glass. Oval flask shape. Enameled decoration of woman seen from the back in a long red dress with bright blue trim, Paul Poiret style. She is holding a blossom. A few blossoms and leaves "floating" around skirt. Neck and rim heavily enameled red outlined in black. Reverse picket fence-like. Blue edge band. Polished pontil. Stopper curled red finial. Stopper probably not original.

Label TextFLASK Maurice Marinot, Paris, France Ca. 1912-1925 Blown glass, enameled Mark: in enamel on lower back Marinot Museum Purchase 83.579Published ReferencesY. Brunhammer, ART DECO STYLE, ill. pg. 109 & 146. Polak, MODERN GLASS, pp. 39-43. Diane C. Wright (editor), _Glass Masterworks from the Chrysler Museum of Art_ (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017), pg. 134-135.