IPBA 2025 Perfume Bottles Auction Catalogs Available

The 2025 Perfume Bottles Auction celebrates the 100th year anniversary of the “1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industries Modernes”, where the phrase “Art Deco” was born. The Perfume Pavillion housed numerous perfumers galleries situated in a vast octagonal hall surrounding a central showcase designed by Rene Lalique, crowned by an enormous illuminated glass fountain rising 20 feet above the crowd.

Many new fragrances were created for the exhibition and introduced in special Art Deco presentations. Bottle designs reflected divergent trends in the interpretation of Art Deco precepts. Traditionalists used simplified forms featuring stylized animals, classic nudes, and over-flowing bowls of flowers and fruit. Frosted accents, enameled and gilded details were applied to transparent, as well as various colors of opaque crystal. Figural stoppers and bottles shaped as animals were especially popular, as was a preference for black glass. In the extreme, bottles of exaggerated geometric shapes, stylized Egyptian and Mexican motifs, the jungle, fountains, tassels and simulated lacquer and sharkskin finishes were all employed to harmonize with contemporary tastes.

The 2025 Perfume Bottle Auction features a 60 years collection of distinctive and unusual Czechoslovakian and commercial perfume bottles, purses, compacts, and decorative vanity and boudoir items. Among 149 curated lots offered are numerous items created for the 1925 Paris Exposition, and a highly important Roger & Gallet presentation offered only at the 1900 Paris Worlds Fair.

1930’s Schafer and Vater blue glazed porcelain bird as Mesoamerican artifact “Xiuhpili” (the Turquoise Prince).

1977 Limited edition (only 25 made) by Silversmith Stuart Devlin of London for perfumer Stanley Hall’s “Jubilee Presentation Set” celebrating Queen Elizabeth II’s 25th year on the throne.