- Title:
- Perfume-holder ('Attardan')
- Object name(s):
- Perfume holder
- Brief description:
- The box is in two halves and made of silver filigree. It is in the form of a six-petalled flower, each petal being vesica-shaped and forming a receptacle for a separate type of perfume. Each receptacle is fitted with a hinged lid ornamented with a rosette of three layers of star-like flowers. At the centre of the attardan is a securing rosette with hinged lid and spray of blue beads, which screws into a hole and locks the lids of the six sections. The whole set stands on three ball-feet each adorned with a small filigree butterfly.
- Collection:
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Associated concept:
- Entertainment & Leisure
- Associated concept:
- Metalwork
- Current reproduction location:
- https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2020MP5480/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg
- Location type:
- Thumbnail
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 8.1
- Material:
- silver
- Object history note:
- A gift received from Miss M.J.H. Buckland in 1931.
- Object name:
- Perfume holder
- Object number:
- IM.2-1931
- Object production date:
- c.1870
- Date - association:
- Made
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1870-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 1870-12-31
- Object production person:
- Unknown
- Object production place:
- Dhaka
- Place association:
- Made
- Physical description:
- The box is in two halves and made of silver filigree. It is in the form of a six-petalled flower, each petal being vesica-shaped and forming a receptacle for a separate type of perfume. Each receptacle is fitted with a hinged lid ornamented with a rosette of three layers of star-like flowers. At the centre of the attardan is a securing rosette with hinged lid and spray of blue beads, which screws into a hole and locks the lids of the six sections. The whole set stands on three ball-feet each adorned with a small filigree butterfly.
- Reproduction number:
- 2020MP5480
- Responsible department/section:
- SSEA
- Technique:
- filigree
- Technique:
- Silver filigree with blue glass beads on the butterflies on the lid
- Text reason:
- Collections online record
- User's reference:
- Reference:
- Arts of Bengal : the heritage of Bangladesh and eastern India : an exhibition organized by the Whitechapel Art Gallery in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum : 9 November-30 December 1979, Whitechapel Art Gallery ..., 12 January-17 February 1980, Manchester City Art Gallery ... . [London]: Whitechapel Art Gallery, [1979] Number: 085488047X (pbk.) :
- User's reference:
- Reference details:
- p.74
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/844a7d25-2e07-3826-9546-0d5e44259615
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/844a7d25-2e07-3826-9546-0d5e44259615, Victoria and Albert Museum, CC BY-NC
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