An early Venetian glass scent bottle, circa 1780-90 In bright blue glass marbled with aventurine flecks, the compressed pear shape with gilt metal mounts, the stopper secured by a chain, 6.5cm high Footnotes: Several French gold-mounted snuff boxes made from blue aventurine glass which is almost identical in appearance to that used to make this bottle are recorded, a number of which bear Paris maker's marks and date letters for the 1780s. See for example those sold by Sotheby's New York on 17 October 2008, lot 115 (part) and 21 October 2010, lot 102, by Sotheby's Paris on 8 November 2012, lot 46 (part) and 14 October 2022, lot 1175 (part), and by Sotheby's Geneva on 13 May 2024, lot 1517. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing