New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

Perfume bottle with stopper

Manufacturer Gundersen-Pairpoint

CultureAmerican

Dateca. 1954

MediumGlass

DimensionsOverall: 10 1/8 in. (25.7 cm)

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number71.5823

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 117, Study Gallery Case 1, Section 3 Sh2

DescriptionPerfume bottle and stopper. Bottle is heavy, clear, squat, hexagonally scalloped collared base, with a hexagonally swirled central part and a bulge at the neck. Hexagonally stained ribbon of red. Stopper is matching and highly ornamental. Stem part is solid swirled and stained with narrow rose ribbon of color and has a 4-petal type finial; also three 3" clear leaves bending down from "flower" and three more up from bottom. Has original Pairpoint paper label on bottom.

Published ReferencesKenneth M. Wilson and Jane Shadel Spillman, _Mt. Washington & Pairpoint Glass_, Volume 2, exh. cat., The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, 2011, 323, fig. 22-6.