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Object ID #907216367
This is a Perfume Flacon.
This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Anonymous as part of The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.
Weil, a Parisian furrier, also created perfumes to be worn with their furs, which had their own tanning aroma. In 1931 Georges Schwander designed this flacon for Weil’s perfume, Antilope, using a popular motif of the period.
It is credited Christie Mayer Lefkowith Collection.
- Drawing, Design for a Bracket, Ibex
- pen and black ink, brush and white gouache, graphite on paper mounted on....
- Gift of Diana Diederich Blake.
- 1992-92-128
- "Spirit Of St. Louis" Perfume Presentation
- flacon: molded glass.
- 69.2016.5
![Here we have an octagonal, pyramid-shaped perfume bottle. Made of dark blue molded glass, it is overall symmetrical in body and has an elegant gold accent underneath the matching octagonal pyramid stopper. Gently tapering upward, underneath the bottle's neck there is a straight geometric band sandwiching a rectangle motif, and the word 'Agnes' carved into the front. Sloping inward in one continuous piece, the neck transitions into a stout cylinder shape with a gold tie around it. Above that is a thin octongal layer, another small, cylindrical division for the continuing gold tie, and finally the bottle's stopper on top. The stopper is the same shape and has the same angled cuts as the pyramid body, just a smaller version.The neck's divisions seem to be for the gold tie's ornamentation and layered tying. The texture of string or even straw, the tie winds tightly around the first cylinder on the neck, and forms a v shape as it transitions into the second cylindrical division. At the end of the tie, along the main pyramid's body, the tie hangs loosely with a spade-shape gold logo. The logo is embossed with curtain ropes and sits underneath a simple wave and leaf design, framing the words [Alleluia d'Amour, Agnes, Paris]. Under the logo, the tie frays and unravels in a neat fan.](https://images.collection.cooperhewitt.org/325316_79a41b5a1189eb41_n.jpg "Object ID #907216363")
- Object ID #907216363
- molded glass.
- Christie Mayer Lefkowith Collection.
- 69.2016.4
Our curators have highlighted 1 object that are related to this one.
- Object ID #907218835
- silk, mink, pate de verre beads.
- Courtesy of Laurie Jue Ying.
- 78.2016.1
Its dimensions are
H x W x D (approx): 12.7 × 15.2 × 2.5 cm (5 × 6 × 1 in.)
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.
