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Fürstenberg Scent Bottle
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Dates
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1795
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Medium
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Porcelain
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Origin
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Germany
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Description
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A Fürstenberg scent bottle modelled as a recumbent sheep on a green base. The tree trunk acts as the receptacle and is surmounted by the stopper formed as a woodpecker on a branch. Gilt metal mounts.
Marked with an indistinct crossed swords and star mark.
9.5cm High
6.5cm Wide
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Condition
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Head of woodpecker and left ear of sheep restored.
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Literature
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Literature: Ghislaine Pillivuyt: Les Flaçons de la Seduction, p. 152, where this scent bottle is erroneously attributed to Meissen, due to the mark being the crossed swords mark, used by both factories.
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