Perfume bottle belonging to Etta Moten Barnett

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

This is a glass perfume bottle (a) and stopper (b). The clear glass bottle (a) is diamond shaped. It has a short slender round neck that leads to a sloping diamond-shaped shoulder with vertical ridges in the glass. The body of the bottle then divides into four faux ‘columns’, one at each corner of the diamond-shape. Each column has its own flaring foot. The clear glass stopper (b) is tall and fits into the neck of the bottle. It has a tall, narrow fluted fan projecting from the plug. The fan is asymmetrical with some of the fan spines longer than other. Two of the fan spines have horizontal ridges on them.

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