Twelve containers, most of which look like vintage perfume bottles.
Corked stoneware jar with a malevolent, vaguely humanoid face on the side. The beady eyes of the face are red-rimmed, and the teeth are bared. On either side of the corked jar opening at the top are two golden horns, making the whole container look like a demon head.
Clear perfume bottle in a sunny yellow. The stopper is decorated with an embellishment that looks like a radial sun, sunflower or star. The main body is approximately spherical and lobed like a pumpkin or a peeled orange, with longitudinal valleys traveling from the narrow neck to the foot.
Stoneware cat with a thick green glaze. The stopper looks like a little crown, sitting atop a tall slim spout. The cat has large, red-brown eyes.
Shiny pink ceramic bottle with a rounded, coppery stopper. The base and the sides are overlaid with ceramic appliqués in the form of branching florals or coral. The appliqués are in a pale blue. The shades of pink and blue are reminiscent of the Trans Pride Flag colors.
A heart-shaped perfume bottle in dark red glass. The body is a heart shape with the bottom, pointed end of the heart flaring into a pedestal. Incised on the side of the body, facing the camera, is a series of faceted, concentric hearts. The stopper is also heart-shaped, with the pointed end of the heart inserted into the neck of the bottle.
Clear glass bottle set into a silver holder. The holder is embellished with a large, silvery fairy whose wings fan out widely beyond the sides of the bottle, and whose hair floats in wavy tendrils. The base of the holder flares out into a square-based pedestal embellished with geometric relief. The glass stopper is a faceted globe.
Spherical metallic gray container covered with slim, conical spikes. It looks like the spiked ball at the end of a mediaeval ball-and-chain that is swung at opponents as a weapon (a "flail").
Clear glass bottle, botanically-inspired. The green glass body is shaped like a flattened sphere, wider than it is tall. This flattened body is embellished with wavy swirl incisions that radiate from the base below, up the sides, and meet at the small neck. From the narrow neck opening flares a delicate ruffle of pink glass, almost as wide as the flat body. The stopper looks like a floral stamen in the shape of a long, twisty cone that is as golden in color as pollen. The pink ruffle thus resembles a flower.
Perfume bottle in the shape of a snail. The metallic horned head and neck, pale gold in color, form the stopper. The snail foot and spiral shell are formed out of clear, yellow-tinted glass, through which we can see that the bottle is three-quarters full of a gold-colored liquid, probably perfume.
Ceramic bottle, tall and slim, in the form of a placidly-smiling crescent moon face, perched on top of a base of cloud scrolls. The bottle is glazed an uneven blue reminiscent of cobalt – where the glaze has settled into the crevices of the carving it deepens in color and emphasizes the relief design. Above the neck the stopper has been crafted in the form of an intricate European coronation/imperial crown.
Contemporary ceramic work, possibly by ceramic artist Brenda Holzke. The piece resembles a black vertical cylinder, irregularly ribbed, and covered with clusters of pointy spines and thorns. It looks like a black, spiky caterpillar stood up vertically on one end.
Bottle originally from Gujarat and now in the British Museum. It is somewhat amphora-shaped but without any side handles, and is made out of silver and mother-of-pearl. The body was fashioned from two complete shells of the marine snail Turbo marmoratus, whose spiraling is a dominant visual feature on the sides. The neck and opening are funnel-shaped, while the base is flared. The combination of metal and nature give it a vaguely steampunk vibe.
