- Manufactured by
- Unidentified
- Owned by
- Barnett, Etta Moten, American, 1901 - 2004
- Date
- ca. 1930
- Medium
- glass
- Dimensions
- H x W x D (a: bottle): 3 3/4 × 3 3/8 × 2 3/4 in. (9.5 × 8.5 × 7 cm)
- H x W x D (b: stopper): 4 13/16 × 1 9/16 × 3/16 in. (12.3 × 4 × 0.4 cm)
- Description
- This is a glass perfume bottle (a) and stopper (b). The clear glass bottle (a) is diamond shaped. It has a short slender round neck that leads to a sloping diamond-shaped shoulder with vertical ridges in the glass. The body of the bottle then divides into four faux ‘columns’, one at each corner of the diamond-shape. Each column has its own flaring foot. The clear glass stopper (b) is tall and fits into the neck of the bottle. It has a tall, narrow fluted fan projecting from the plug. The fan is asymmetrical with some of the fan spines longer than other. Two of the fan spines have horizontal ridges on them.
- Place used
- Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America
- Collection title
- Etta Moten Barnett Archive
- Classification
- Accessories and Personal Effects
- Type
- perfume bottles
- Topic
- Activism
- Actors
- Broadway Theatre
- Cosmetics
- Singers (Musicians)
- Women
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- A2022.13.1.8ab
- Restrictions & Rights
- No known copyright restrictions
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




