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Tiffany & Co. Alfred B. Meyer Victorian Enamel Diamond 18 Karat Gold Antique French Perfume Bottle
- Designed as a cylindrical enameled bottle with a dome shaped hinged cap
- Enamel depict painted women, men, and children in draped clothing
- Shown among whipsy clouds and stars holding hands and dancing
- Opaque white, grey, and blue with transparent brownish-purple
- Accented by painted gold stars and swirls - layered
- Cap is textured and featured graved star motifs around lip
- Bead set with old European cut diamonds fully around
- Weighing approximately 0.28 carat total - eye clean and bright
- Hinged cap lifts to reveal a faceted stud stopper with cork base
- Inner lip is inscribed 'Florie from G.L.W.'
- Stamped for with French hallmarks for 18 karat gold
- Fully signed for Tiffany & Co. Paris
- With signature for Alfred Bernard Meyer
- Circa: 1880
- Measures: 1 1/16 x 2 5/8 inches
- Total Weight: 59.2 grams
- Stock Number: We-13757
Alfred Bernard Meyer(1832-1904) is regarded as one of the worlds most talented enamelists due to his expert execution of Renaissance era techniques. Meyer was considered an impressionist and founded the L'Union - a French trades union and arts collective in 1875. Members included Pissarro, Cezanne, Beliard, and Monet. This piece was exhibited at the 1880 Exhibition of the Central Union of Fine Arts as a "Small smell bottle forming cachet, in painted enamel, gold frame filled with brilliants of an original shape. The composition and execution of the enamel, of which we give us an overall drawing, is by one of our best artists, Alfred Meyer..." It was believed to have later been gifted to Florence Kelley- a.k.a Florie- by her then husband, G. Lazare Wischnewetzky. Kelley was an American political reformer famously known as a children's rights activist, wage abolitionist, and civil rights advocate. Kelley was an original founder of the NAACP and friend to W.E.B. DuBois and daughter of U.S. Representative William D. Kelley and Caroline Bartam Bosnall. A direct relative of the Bartram family that founded Bartrams Gardens right here in Philadelphia, where Kelley is also buried.
$8,500.00
Tiffany & Co. Alfred B. Meyer Victorian Enamel Diamond 18 Karat Gold Antique French Perfume Bottle—
$8,500.00
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- Designed as a cylindrical enameled bottle with a dome shaped hinged cap
- Enamel depict painted women, men, and children in draped clothing
- Shown among whipsy clouds and stars holding hands and dancing
- Opaque white, grey, and blue with transparent brownish-purple
- Accented by painted gold stars and swirls - layered
- Cap is textured and featured graved star motifs around lip
- Bead set with old European cut diamonds fully around
- Weighing approximately 0.28 carat total - eye clean and bright
- Hinged cap lifts to reveal a faceted stud stopper with cork base
- Inner lip is inscribed 'Florie from G.L.W.'
- Stamped for with French hallmarks for 18 karat gold
- Fully signed for Tiffany & Co. Paris
- With signature for Alfred Bernard Meyer
- Circa: 1880
- Measures: 1 1/16 x 2 5/8 inches
- Total Weight: 59.2 grams
- Stock Number: We-13757
Alfred Bernard Meyer(1832-1904) is regarded as one of the worlds most talented enamelists due to his expert execution of Renaissance era techniques. Meyer was considered an impressionist and founded the L'Union - a French trades union and arts collective in 1875. Members included Pissarro, Cezanne, Beliard, and Monet. This piece was exhibited at the 1880 Exhibition of the Central Union of Fine Arts as a "Small smell bottle forming cachet, in painted enamel, gold frame filled with brilliants of an original shape. The composition and execution of the enamel, of which we give us an overall drawing, is by one of our best artists, Alfred Meyer..." It was believed to have later been gifted to Florence Kelley- a.k.a Florie- by her then husband, G. Lazare Wischnewetzky. Kelley was an American political reformer famously known as a children's rights activist, wage abolitionist, and civil rights advocate. Kelley was an original founder of the NAACP and friend to W.E.B. DuBois and daughter of U.S. Representative William D. Kelley and Caroline Bartam Bosnall. A direct relative of the Bartram family that founded Bartrams Gardens right here in Philadelphia, where Kelley is also buried.
