James Giles green glass scent bottle

Green scent flask is beautifully decorated in gilt with a picturesque ruin beside a tree, and birds in the sky above. Foreground is composed of boulders, the reverse, a large bird is in flight, and the tree is placed on the opposite side of the ruin. The canted corners are decorated with geometrical motifs, including a trellis-and-dot design, surmounted by gilt circles surrounded with dots. The narrowest edges are decorated with gilt wavy lines and alternating dots, and the shoulders have a gilt motif favoured by Giles studio in his work on glass. The neck is surrounded by a gilt wavy line with a band running through it.

Condition: Very good - no damage or restoration to the flask itself, although the stopper is broken and wedged in situ. The gilding is in very good order. The base is incised with the tiny initials ak (over) okh, possibly an old inventory reference.