Eight-faceted Bottle

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Toward the end of the 1700s, multifaceted bottles like this one became popular with the growing demand from both the elites as well as the middle class. The dark-brown iron oxide pigment makes this eight-faceted bottle earthy, yet sophisticated. The exquisite hue of this bottle is from iron oxide, also known as “purple oxide.”

Descripción original del museo, en inglés. Licencia: CC0