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Cameo Scent Bottle with Fruit. Colorless or light amber and white glasses, purple, green, yellow, and orange paint or enamel, gilding, silver, cork; cased, blown, carved, painted or enameled, gilded, assembled. Flattened globular white on transparent light amber or colorless glass scent bottle. One side of bottle decorated with pair of pears on branch with leaves; opposite side decorated with pair of plums on branch with leaves. Ends of stems curl around base to create somewhat flat surface. Relief layer painted in greens, yellow, orange, blue, and purple, possibly fired enamel. Background of continuous undulating gold-painted line. Silver neck fixed to top of bottle; globular cap decorated with ornamental filigree hinged to neck. Cork set within top of cap.
Exhibitions (1)

Cameo Glass: Masterpieces from 2000 Years of Glassmaking
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1982-05-01 through 1982-10-31
Cameo glass, one of the most costly and difficult decorating techniques since first century B.C., is documented and illustrated in this catalog. Included are examples from Rome, Islam, and China, as well as English 19th-century masterpieces by John Northwood and George Woodall among others.
For the purposes of this catalog, the term “cameo glass” is used to refer to cased glass objects with two or more differently colored layers. The outer layer is usually an opaque or opalescent white, and the outer layer or layers have been carved in to leave the decoration standing in relief against a body of contrasting color. Shading is produced by thinning down the carved layer; highlights are created where the glass is left thickest.
Both this catalog, and the exhibition for which it was created, documents the 2000-year cameo glass tradition.
Publications (4)
English cameo glass perfume bottles (2020)
illustrated, p. 246, AT26;
Acquisitions (2017)
illustrated, pp. 28-29 (#19);
BIB# AI103665
Cameo Glass: Masterpieces from 2000 Years of Glassmaking (1982)
illustrated, pp. 81, 117; #80;
BIB# 30609