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

Perfume bottle with stopper

CultureCzechoslovakian

Date1925

MediumPressed glass

DimensionsOverall: 7 in. (17.8 cm)
Base: 2 x 2 in. (5.1 x 5.1 cm)

InscribedAcid mark across flat bottom: "MADE IN/CZECHOSLOVAKIA"

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number0.982

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 117, Study Gallery Case 1, Section 1 Sh1

DescriptionPerfume bottle and stopper. Pressed "black" rectangular form square curved corner base, round neck and rim cut and polished, acid-etched each triangular corner at bottom of design of stylized primitive man; colorless thin cut steeple stopper.