A small silver-gilt mounted ruby glass bottle - Lot 44

A small silver-gilt mounted ruby glass bottle A small silver-gilt mounted ruby glass bottle Glass and mounting (unmarked) : South Germany, early 18th century H. 18 cm; wt 124 g. Provenance: James Stewart Hodgson Collection (1827-1899) ; Agatha, Marchioness of Sligo Collection (1866-1965); Countess Mountbatten of Burma Collection; his sale: Sotheby's, London, March 24, 2021, lot 74 ; Private collection, France. Comparative bibliography: R. von Strasser & S. Baumgärtner, Licht und Farbe, Dekoriertes Glas Renaissance, Barock, Biedermeier Die Sammlung Rudolf von Strasser, Vienna, 2002. T. Schroder, Renaissance and Baroque Silver, Mounted Porcelain and Ruby Glass from the Zilkha Collection, London, 2012. The small, flattened pear-shaped bottle is made of ribbed ruby glass, with a demarcation between the body and the neck. It rests on an oval, domed silver-gilt pedestal with a wavy rim, engraved with scrolls, shells and foliage on a background of scales and chain links. At the neck, a ring edged with a wavy collar is surmounted by a small cylinder serving as a receptacle for a small dome-covered stopper, with a wavy collar and topped by a seed. (A label formerly affixed to the underside of the foot read: Hodgson Bequest 14). Condition: good Other small bottles of the same type can be found in the collections of the Voûte Verte in Dresden, the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin and the von Strasser collection (cf. von Strasser & Baumgärtner, pp. 416, 418-41, nos. 256 & 257, ill.). A similar stopper is found on a larger bottle from the Zilkha collection (cf. Schroder, no. 98; Christie's, New York, Global Treasury: The Life and Collection of Selim & Mary Zilkha, February 6, 2025, lot 117).