Boîte à savonette

Manufacture Royale|André Philippe

ca. 1770–80 · Faience (tin-glazed earthenware) · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

This boîte à savonette presumably was en suite with a sponge box, and a barber's basin; it seems to be a rare survivor and may have been specially made for a particular perfumer or seller of toilette articles in Montpellier, by one of the soap factories there.

Artist

Manufacture Royale|André Philippe

Date

ca. 1770–80

Medium

Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)

Culture

French, Montpellier

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1950