Walnut-shaped porcelain perfume bottle with silver mount, 1885

A rare sterling silver mounted porcelain novelty perfume bottle…
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A rare sterling silver mounted porcelain novelty perfume bottle in the form of a walnut, Sampson Mordan, London, 1885, the Siros Collection, South Australia, the ovoid body naturalistically modelled as a walnut with part of the shell removed at one end exposing the fruit inside, rising to a screw top silver cover, the porcelain stamped Rd 28709, 5.5 cm long

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  • Oviform /ovoid - The outline loosely resembling the shape of an egg.
  • Sterling Silver - Sterling silver is a mixture of 92.5% pure silver and 7.5% of another metal, usually copper. Fine silver is 99.9% pure silver, and is relatively soft and the addition of the very small amount of copper gives the metal enough strength and hardness to be worked into jewellery, decorative and household objects.

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