Perfume Bottles

12AMERICAN 20TH CENTURY GLASSsister’s is?”, he could then sign it on the spot,often on the golf course. Carder continued tobe active in the company until his retirementin 1959 at age 96.Steuben produced more than 200different scent bottle shapes, and that hugeperfume production was enlarged by thework the company did for special orders tobe mounted as atomizers by DeVilbiss andto be treated with silver overlay by suchcompanies as Alvin Silver Company.Comfort Tiffany took over the jewelrybusiness and used it as the primary outletfor his glassware designs.4.25” Tiffany Favrile boule-shaped bottle withball stopper, decorated with hearts andvines, Signed, ca. 1920s, $750-900Quezal, named for a colorful CentralAmerican bird, was founded by MartinBach, a former Tiffany employee, in 1904. Itproduced iridescent glass, sometimes withsilver overlay, in imitation of Tiffany’sFavrile and Steuben’s Aurene. Most Quezalpieces are signed. The firm produced goldiridescent commercial scent bottles for thefirm of Melba in Chicago.7.6” Steuben blue Aurene trumpet form perfumebottle with stopper, bottom signedAurene plus paper label $850Tiffany Glass: Louis Comfort Tiffany(1848-1933) was a great glass designerknown for innovation in many techniques,especially in the Art Nouveau style. Inperfume bottles, perhaps his best knownexamples are in his “Favrile” line. Onlysome Tiffany glass is marked with anengraved signature or etched initials, oftenwith the word “Favrile” and/or with a dateor identification number. L. C. Tiffany wasthe son of the founder of the great New Yorkjewelry retail store, Tiffany’s. In 1902, LouisVery rare Quezal trumpet form perfume withfour ribs & pointed stopper. Actually a commercialbottle for the Melba Company, bottommarked both “Q” and “Melba,” ca. 1920,$1,800-2,000