Toilet bottle

Object/Artifact

Historic Hudson Valley

Name/Title

Toilet bottle

Entry/Object ID

MP.94.158 a-b

Description

Medium sized four-sided white porcelain perfume bottle with stopper sitting in top. The stopper starts with a small knob painted gold. It then drops to a four-sided gold trimmed box shape with periwinkle flowers on glaze. Below this is the neck painted gold; the unglazed thick part terminates inside the mouth of jar body. The body of jar starts with a gold painted neck. The body swells to four sides with periwinkle flowers scattered across the surface, on-glaze decorated. At mid-bottom, the four sides cut in to a smaller dimension and terminates with a foot painted gold.

Made/Created

Manufacturer

R. Delinieres & Company

Date made

1879

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type

Inscription

Transcription

Worksheet shows drawing: "(Crown)/ Berlin"

Other Names and Numbers

Other Numbers

MP.94.158 A-B

MP.94.158a-b

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Overall

Height

8 in

Width

3-1/4 in

Dimension Notes

Display Dimensions: 8 x 3 1/4 in. (20.3 x 8.3 cm)

Material

Porcelain

General Notes

Note Type

StorageNote

Note

Home Location: Historic Hudson Valley, Montgomery Place, Centennial Bedroom