Scent Bottle Stopper
Bernard Perrot's Verrerie Royale d'Orleans

Details
Title
Scent Bottle Stopper
Artist/Maker
Bernard Perrot's Verrerie Royale d'Orleans
Date
ca. 1700
Medium
Black glass mounted in pewter
Dimensions
2 7/16 x 1 1/2 x 1 5/8 inches
Credit
Purchase with funds from the Decorative Arts Acquisition Trust
Accession #
1994.23
On View
Currently not on view
The black, glossy surface and facial features of this perfume stopper reveal that it was crafted to represent a person of African ancestry. During centuries past, Africans in Europe included both individuals of high social status as well as enslaved people. Bernard Perrot was a notable glassmaker in Orléans, France, who specialized in the Venetian style of glassmaking, a tradition that drew from Islamic techniques.