Antique 1904 B/ham Hallmarked STERLING SILVER Lidded Asian-Style Perfume Flask

Description: A superb Edwardian flattened ovid-shaped porcelain scent bottle with a solid silver threaded top. Of fantastic quality, the front has an attractive hand painted decoration depicting a Japanese Geisha in traditional dress playing a shamisen, a traditional three-stringed Japanese musical instrument. The reverse is painted with an almost abstract landscape in shades of brown and light blue. The top is hallmarked for Birmingham with a date of 1904 and the maker’s mark is partially-obscured but is for Robert Pringle & Sons, one of the most successful jewellery concerns in England. The Anglo-Japanese style developed in the United Kingdom through the Victorian era and early Edwardian era from approximately 1851 to the 1910s, when a new appreciation for Japanese design and culture influenced how designers and craftspeople made British art. It is possible then that this was produced in the UK and not imported from Japan! Dimensions; L6cms x W 3.4cms x D 1.6cms. Robert Pringle (1800-1875) was apprenticed to a jeweller in Perth, Scotland, at the age of 13. Following his apprenticeship, he moved to London in 1820 and 1835, he established a workshop as a manufacturing jeweller in Clerkenwell, London. By 1868, he opened a shop at Wilderness Row which was later named the Wilderness Works, which expanded to become substantial premises in Clerkenwell, producing a wide range of goods. The business closed in 1967. A charming example of the fusing of two cultures at the turn of the 20th century, this is bound to be of interest to collectors of scent bottles or someone who just enjoys owning a lovely thing. Please note, photos are enlarged to show detail, Scale can be assessed by photo 13. Flask will be supplied in the hard-backed jewellers box pictured in photo 14, suitable for for display. Thank you.

Price: 144.5 GBP

Location: PERTH

End Time: 2024-10-06T20:08:53.000Z

Shipping Cost: 19.7 GBP