Turquoise Blue Opaline Scent Bottle With Gilt Enamel Decoration, Napoleon III Period

A baluster-shaped perfume bottle with a flattened base, made of turquoise-blue opaline, decorated with gold-enamelled foliage scrolls, volutes and scattered flowers; the neck and long, tapered stopper are adorned with overlapping corollas outlined with a band of white enamel.
France. Napoleon III period.
H_11 cm 
Very good condition. 

The Napoleon III style is characterised by a pronounced taste for exuberance and a pursuit of complex forms, inherited from or reinterpreting the Baroque and Rococo styles. Toiletry bottles known as ‘corolla-shaped’ or with undulating fluted necks, enhanced with enamels and gold fillets, illustrate this technical inventiveness specific to French crystal and glassworks of the Second Empire, which vied with one another in virtuosity to appeal to a bourgeois clientele keen on ceremonial objects for their bathrooms.
Our piece follows in the tradition of 19th-century fine glassware and decorative opaline creations, evoking the decorative elegance and refinement of boudoir accessories from the Imperial period.