Chinese Perfume Bottle with 2 Vials

Tall, cloudy and tolerant, one bottle keeps a smaller twin tucked against its hip.

This carved rock crystal perfume bottle with two vials is from Hebei Province, China, and dates to the 19th century. A bottle set with extra vials reflects the practice of keeping scents or snuff in small containers that could be carried or displayed. Two narrow cylinders are joined side by side, frosted and mottled, the taller topped with a dark domed stopper and the shorter with a smaller one. Milky veils drift through, above a clear base. It is 2 inches wide, 1.25 deep and 3 high.

Big sibling energy, in a very quiet format.