A VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT MOUNTED RUBY-GLASS SCENT-BOTTLE
MARK OF JOHN HARRIS, LONDON, 1853
The glass bottle globular, the silver-gilt mounts engraved with trailing foliage, the cover further engraved with initials 'AHES' below an earl's coronet
2½ in. (7 cm.) high
The initials are those of Adelaide Horatia Elizabeth Spencer (d.1877), second wife of Frederick, 4th Earl Spencer.
A VICTORIAN SILVER-GILT MOUNTED RUBY-GLASS SCENT-BOTTLE
MARK OF JOHN HARRIS, LONDON, 1853
The glass bottle globular, the silver-gilt mounts engraved with trailing foliage, the cover further engraved with initials 'AHES' below an earl's coronet
2½ in. (7 cm.) high
The initials are those of Adelaide Horatia Elizabeth Spencer (d.1877), second wife of Frederick, 4th Earl Spencer.