1678039

Volupte' Gold Compact #1678039

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Volupte' Gold Compact #1678039
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This wonderful compact comes from Volupte'. It is circa 1920s-1930s. The compact is square and is in a Chinoiserie or Asian-influenced design!</em></td>
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This wonderful compact comes from Volupte'. It is circa 1920s-1930s.<p>

The compact is square and is in a Chinoiserie or Asian-influenced design, with impressed figures of a tiger/leaping hart, birds, elephant, trees, and ferns which are painted in aqua, red, black, and yellow on the gold metal. The sides of the compact are edged with an impressed teardrop and fern design painted in black and white. The compact has an inside compartment. The design is identical on both sides.<p>

The compact is a 2 7/8 x 2 7/8-inch square and is 1/3-inch thick. Beyond a small chip out of the lower right corner of the mirror on the inside of the compact, this piece is in excellent condition!<p>

This will make an excellent addition to a compact or accesories collection!<p>

(For a bit of history: From the American Popular Culture website's excellent article on decorative compacts ("About Face: The Emergence, Evolution, and Demise of the Decorative Compact") by Deirdre Clemente, we learn that the decorative compact--as the wonderful antique and vintage compacts currently sought by collectors are called--dominated the first half of the 20th century.<p>

The decorative compact, most often made of metal, was made in a variety of elaborate shapes. Compacts first came onto the fashion scene in the early 1900s, were at their peak in the 1920s and 1930s, and were phased out by the mid-1950s, at which time the plastic compacts we have now took over.<p>

Clemente remarks that decorative compacts were made ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Very Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1920s-1930s</td></tr>






<tr><td>Title:Volupte' Gold Compact</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:Hillsboro, Ohio USA</td></tr>
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