Art Deco Glass Perfume Bottle and Powder Jar

Art Deco Glass Perfume Bottle and Powder Jar

Set of Art Deco style vanity bottles in dark aquamarine. Estimated circa 1920’s 1960’s. Tri-corner shape with rounded edges. The stopper and finial are heat finished solid glass and jewel-like. The style spans the Art Deco period through Mid-Century Modern. They have the geometric lines of Art Deco, the color and feel of Depression Glass, and the modernist atomic tri-corner style. It’s difficult to pin-point the era of make here.

Throughout the eras mentioned above, many Bohemian region glass factories provided vanity sets including bottles and jars in geometric lines. The U.S. glass houses produced styles like this too. They are most-likely not of Italian or Scandinivian descent.

They were created by mold. The perfume bottle’s mold lines are heat-smoothed, but the covered box has sharp mold lines on the exterior of the body (not the lid). The rough mold lines point to Depression Glass. The aquamarine color (more green than blue) spans the eras. The perfume bottle has thicker walls than the powder jar and returns a bright green glow under blacklight. The thinner walled box does not glow (which is odd). We tend to think these are from the Depression era.

In super condition with the only signs of age being two tiny dings on the perfume bottle stopper. There are no other flaws. Glass is clean and still brilliant. The stopper and bottle neck are ground to fit. Perfume is 5.75″ tall, the box is 4.5″ tall. Both bottles have three 4″ wide sides.