C oco Chanel kept hundreds of perfume bottles on her vanity, many of them empty. When asked why she held on to them, she replied, “Those bottles are my memories of surrender and ...

Once recycled, the glass is molded into the iconic shapes and sizes that make up perfume bottles. After cooling, the bottles are shaped, polished, and sometimes even painted, ready to be filled ...

"Mugler’s Angel star-shaped bottle was at the time a technological nightmare, and it made perfume a magical found object as nothing else had been," Burr says. It transcended the idea of a ...

Apothecary bottles go all the way back to the Roman era when they were used to store herbal extracts and oils.

Private sales, including the perfume bottles, also are scheduled. The heart-shape bottle, which Mr. Giordano said was both his first and his favorite piece, was produced in Nove di Bassano ...

Less delicate than perfume bottles, they are similarly sized and ... Later on, they came in a wider variety of shapes and sizes, generally more angular than the glassware of today, and a paper ...