On Thursday 11 August 2016
Whenever you move ahead to mention about materials possessed by bottles of the perfume, first answer that comes in the mind of people is glass. Traditionally, glass perfume bottles comprise of various other types of materials and even during a particular period, have wide applications in production of different bottle designs to store perfume. With the help of this article, you will be able to know about varieties of bottles designed by the help of glass.
Enamel Bottles
Enamel bottles used mainly for storage of perfumes had remained the trend during 18th century and formed a big part of various designer bottles. Wednesbury and Bilston were two leading personalities, who have launched enamel bottles in their large perfume houses. Decorations of these bottles or lotion pump collections comprise mainly of flowers and general landscapes with few of their highly intricate designs to feature portraits. These bottles possess uniform characters and serve as a type of contemporary porcelain.
Porcelain Bottles
Porcelain type of glass perfume bottles also serve as eye-catching options for production of unique and trendy perfume bottles. These are of highly decorative collections usually design to model after animals or human beings. Porcelain designs help the portion to locate opening of the head and to dispense the perfume. Early designs mainly come with stoppers to allow prevention of the perfume to escape from bottles. However, later designs replaced the use of stopper by the help of intricate designs available as fruits, birds and flowers.
One of the interesting events, which took place during the later months of 18th century, was both porcelain and enamel-based cosmetic products, such as perfumes and cream pump items had many limitations in terms of their functionalities and values. Even such limitations have lead to rare sales and collection of items because of scarcity in their actual samples. Even the aforementioned old-fashioned perfume bottles come with smelling salts making less preferable among women and young girls.
Fusion Type of Bottles
During the later years of 19th century, large numbers and types of glass and ceramic materials have fused together for imitation of ivory with applied and molded forms of ornaments to represent idioms used popularly in China and Japan. Few of these designs are for re-creation of the impression related to traditional level of Chinese snuff bottles in combination with knopped stoppers replaced most of the times by the help of chains and slender gold items.
