English Cut Crystal and Sterling Silver Perfume Bottle
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An English cut crystal and sterling silver perfume bottle, Birmingham 1926/7, with maker's mark for Miller Bros, of globular form with a long slender neck, in modulating hues of amber to clear, facet cut to the neck with a cut diamond and fan motif to the base, having the original minutely cut crystal stopper, a silver mount and floral screw top orb lid; hallmarked to lid. Height 16 cm.
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- Sterling Silver - Sterling silver is a mixture of 92.5% pure silver and 7.5% of another metal, usually copper. Fine silver is 99.9% pure silver, and is relatively soft and the addition of the very small amount of copper gives the metal enough strength and hardness to be worked into jewellery, decorative and household objects.
- Faceting - Faceting is a technique of removing material from a curved surface, to give a series of flat surfaces but retaining the profile of the original surface.
The technique is most commonly associated with diamond cutting where the various cuts used such as rose cut and brilliant cut, add life and sparkle to the stone, whilst at the same time removing as little of the stone as possible.
Faceting by grinding is also used to decorate glass. The stems of many drinking glasses are decorated by cutting a series of flat surfaces on a circular stem, and hollow vessels such as vases may have faceted surfaces.
In furniture faceting is often applied to legs of tables and chairs, where a circular baluster shaped section is flattened so as to form an octagonal section.
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