With amazingly well-preserved presentation, this very early 1800s French opaline scent bottle is shrouded in dore collar and raised on raised base, so it stands a full 5 3/4" to the top of the Chinoiserie figure on cap. More typical for these would be roundels of eglomise (back-painted glass) souvenir scenes of Paris architectural sites. This one is quite unique, as the original 4 medallions are actually glass with hot-applied glass in a pate-sur-pate style bas relief pictorial - 2 running stag and a couple dogs, hounds. Full measurements noted on the photos.
Very good to excellent condition throughout, age and type considered. Typically, there will be chips or cracks in the narrow neck, a missing or damaged stopper, or bent top - but this one has nothing to report by way of flaw. Interesting figure atop the hinged lid, stopper is original and intact, and none of the 4 scenes with animals have any loss whatsoever. It is the absence of flaws that help make it such a remarkable bottle.
