Perfume Bottles

SPECIALTY PERFUME BOTTLES 336.5” Pair of paperweight scent bottles withturquoise flowers rising from pink bases,signed by Joe St. Clair, ca. 1945-70, $750 pr.Whitall Tatum & Company ofMillville, New Jersey, made paperweightscent bottles (or inkwells) with lilies orroses inside the heavy glass bases.Gunderson-Pairpoint (1939-56)produced a wide range of perfume bottles inthe styles of elegant Depression Glass, MidcenturyModern and paperweights.Perfume Lamps:These are small lamps that featured anindentation in the top of the shade forperfume or perfumed oil. The heat of thelight bulb caused the perfume to evaporateand fill the room with scent. They are oftensimple frosted glass, but wonderful figurallamps made of ceramic material were alsopopular in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. Dueto safety concerns, modern rewiring of theselamps is considered only a minor defect.8.5” DeVilbiss perfume lamp in light to darkorange glass internally painted with nudefairies and foliage in elaborate metal mount,c1930s $500Perfume Burners: The word perfumecomes from the Latin word meaning “toburn.” The earliest uses of scents were toburn them as part of religious ceremonies.Incense burners date back at least to ancientEgypt. Perfume burners are usually in theform of glass perfume bottles with longcloth wicks and metal covers that are filledwith special perfumed oil. When lighted,they give off scent just like a scented candledoes today.6” Fulper (New Brunswick, NJ) perfume lampwith molded dancer, rewired, signed Fulper $6006.7” Sirenes, a clear and frosted burnerw/conforming cover, amber stain, moldedsignature R Lalique $2750