The Cristalleries de Baccarat was established in 1764 in Lorraine France, under the patronage of Louis XV, in an effort to stem the influx of Bohemian imports and reduce unemployment in the eastern region. Baccarat has produced the finest crystal since 1816, using 30% lead crystal in their luxurious products of superior quality.

Baccarat first started making perfume flacons for Houbigant, Ed Pinaud, Guerlain and Violet during the 19th century. During this time, the bottles had a plain, restrained, apothecary style look to them, in order to leave plenty of room for the perfumer's label.  The same perfume bottle was used for many different perfume companies, for instance the #10 bottle was used for both D'Orsay & Houbigant.

 At the turn of the century, Baccarat was making bottles for other leading companies such as Lubin, D'Orsay, Bichara  and Coty. In 1911, the style of the bottles changed, and Baccarat was influenced by other glassmakers like Lalique, Maurice Depinoix and Julien Viard. Bottles were made in the most romantic styles, with hints of Art Nouveau and ethereal presentations of the highest quality.

Later in the late 1920s and into the 1930s, the Art Deco movement took hold and the geometric bottles for Myon, Lentheric and Ybry are directly influenced by this. Georges Chevalier designd many of Baccarat's Art Deco bottles. Louis Sue designed the bottle for Jean Patou's Amour Amour in 1924.

In the 1940s, Baccarat was again inspired by the mainstream styles and the Surrealist movement which was sweeping France. Salvador Dali lent his unique creativity and designed some bottles for Baccarat during this time. The bottles for Schiaparelli, such as  Le Roi Soleil, are the perfect examples of the Surrealist's inventions.

Some of the most important artists designed bottles produced by Baccarat, these include Georges Chevalier, Louis Sue, Julien Viard, Salvador Dali.

Identification of Baccarat bottles:

Baccarat bottles are often only identified by documentation and experience, since early examples were not always marked. Bottles were systematically engraved with a mark only from 1936 onward. Prior to this, some were stamped, others had a small circular paper label, and many have NO distinguishing mark at all. Many bottles are usually signed with an acid etched mark. After 1936, all bottles were stamped with a logo.

Baccarat made perfume bottles for a number of companies such as:

• Delettrez
• Jean Patou
• Houbigant
• Coty
• Oriza L. Legrand
• Atkinson
• Richard
• Ciro
• Forest
• LT Piver
• Godet
• Bruyere
• D'Hortys
• Molinelle
• Verlayne
• Paquin
• Fioret
• Jardin
• Myon
• Violet
• Jean Desprez
• Suzy
• Gelle Freres
• Molinard
• D'Orsay
• Ramses
• Christian Dior
• Molyneux
• Guerlain
• Corday
• Arys
• Lentheric
• Yardley
• Roger et Gallet
• Jaeckel
• Caron
• Schiaparelli
• Bichara
• Grenoville
• T. Jones
• Fontanis
• Volnay
• Rimmel
• Ed Pinaud
• Bourjois
• Gabilla
• Miro Dena
• Ybry
• Silka
• Elizabeth Arden

The company had a systematic way of numbering the designs for their bottles, each number corresponds to the date in which it was originally designed. The base of your bottle and end of stopper should have some inscribed numbers, you can look for your numbers below to help you date your bottle and the perfume company it was made for. These numbers correspond to those found in the reference book Baccarat Les Flacons a Parfum/The Perfume Bottles by Compagnie des Cristalleries de Baccarat (1986). These are the only ones I have found so far:

• 001...1889 for various companies, for Legrand in 1925
• 002...1900 for D'Orsay and others
• 003...1900 for Bruyere and others
• 004...1897 for Ed Pinaud
• 006...1902 for D'Orsay
• 007...1897 for Ed Pinaud
• 009...1927 for Maudy
• 010...1907/1923 for Houbigant,1900/1908 for Victor Vaissier, for D'Orsay in 1912
• 012...1912 for Wolff & Söhne , Oriza Legrand,Godet
• 013...1908 for Lubin
• 016...1923 for Jeanne Lanvin
• 017...1908 for Lubin
• 018...1906/1909 for Coty, for Morny in 1908
• 024...1908/1947 for Guerlain
• 026...1933 for Heron Works
• 029...1908...Houbigant
• 030...1908 for Delettrez
• 032...1908 for Gelle Freres
• 037...1910 for F Wolff & Sohn
• 038...1908 for Molinard Jeune & Mori
• 043...1908 for Gelle Freres, 1920 for Violet
• 048...1909 for Roger et Gallet
• 050...1909 unknown
• 051...1909 unknown
• 057...1909 for Viville
• 058...1909 for Jardin
• 060...1909 for Coty
• 065...1909 for Godet
• 068...1909 for Bruyere
• 075...1910 for LT Piver
• 076...1910 for Crown Perfumery
• 077...1910 for Violet
• 078...1910/1925 for LT Piver
• 081...1910 for Houbigant
• 086...1910 for LT Piver
• 088...1912 for LT Piver
• 093...1910 for Caron
• 094...1910 for Veolay
• 099...1910 for Charles Fay
• 105...1910 for Coty
• 106...1911 for Gelle Freres
• 108...1890 for Treu & Nuglisch, Dr. Dys, 1911 for J.F.Schwarzlose & Sohne
• 109...1911 for Coty
• 111...1911 for Brajan and later for Jean Desprez
• 116...1911 for Godet and Choisy
• 117...1914 for Godet
• 119...1911 for Godet
• 120...1910 for A. Gravier
• 125...1911 for Roger et Gallet & Vertra
• 126...1911 for Roger et Gallet
• 130...1911 for Gustav Lohse & Peggy Hoyt
• 135...1911 for Roger et Gallet
• 137...1911 for Grenoville
• 145...1911 for Violet
• 146...1910 for L. Plassard
• 147...1911 for Coty
• 158...1902/1926 for Gabilla
• 162...1912 for D'Orsay
• 163...1925 for D'Orsay
• 169...1912 for LT Piver
• 171...1947 for Guerlain
• 172...1912 for D'Orsay
• 173...1911 for D'Orsay
• 174...1911 for D'Orsay
• 177...1912 for Frères Gellé
• 186...1925 for JE Atkinson
• 190...1920 for A. Gravier
• 200...1912 for A. Gravier & Grenoville
• 204...1912 for LT Piver
• 209...1912 for Houbigant
• 211...1913 for Gabilla
• 214...1913 for Godet
• 216...1913 for D'Orsay
• 217...1913 for A. Gravier
• 218...1914 for D'Orsay
• 219...1913 for Houbigant
• 223...1913 for D'Orsay
• 224...1913 for Yardley
• 225...1913 for D'Orsay, in 1923 for Coty
• 226...1923 for Miro-Dena
• 227...1907 for Coty
• 228...1913 for Bichara
• 230...1913 for D'Orsay & Grenoville
• 233...1913 for D'Orsay
• 236...1913 for Bichara
• 237...1913 for Lubin, and in 1930 for Tchaker
• 239...1913 for Coty
• 245...1913 for Madame Caravaglios & A. Gravier
• 246...1913 for Oriza L. Legrand
• 252...1922 for Miro Dena
• 253...1913 for Miro Dena
• 257...1913 for Clamy, 1925 for Fontanis
• 274...1914 for Violet
• 284...1914 for Guerlain
• 286...1915,1921 for Myrurgia
• 288...1915 for Oriza Legrand
• 290...1916 for Delettrez
• 291...1917 for Coty
• 297...1925 for Gal
• 306...1916 for A. Gravier
• 307...1913 for Coty
• 312...1917 for D'Orsay
• 314...1917 for Colgate,1930 for Liliane Savre
• 315...1917 for Avon Cosmetics
• 316...1917 for Harrods of Knightsbridge
• 321...1955 for Hermes and Bourjois in 1925
• 323...1917 for Ramses
• 324...1917 for Coryse & D'Hortys
• 327...1917 for Arys
• 330...1917 for Pleville,used in 1923
• 335...1917 for Langlois & Grenoville
• 337...1917 for Mury
• 342...1925 for Peggy Hoyt
• 347...1917 for Jean Desprez
• 350...1917 for Grenoville
• 351...1917 for Cottan
• 352...1917 for Silka
• 356...1917 for Mury
• 359...1917 for D'Hortys & Mori
• 360...1917 for Paul Premet
• 361...1917 for Oriza Legrand
• 367...1926 for Mury
• 368...1911 for LT Piver, and T. Jones in 1917
• 369...1917 for D'Izia & J LaMott in 1920
• 371...1917 for Mury
• 372...1917 for Gabilla
• 377...1918 for Gabilla
• 378...1919 for D'Orsay  & Vigny
• 383...1918 for Houbigant
• 389...1918 for Monne
• 391...1918 for Gueldy
• 392...1920 for Gueldy
• 395...1919 for Lorenzy-Palanca
• 398...1919 for LT Piver & Violet
• 403...1919 for Ramses
• 411...1919 for LT Piver
• 412...1919 for Gabilla
• 414...1919 for de Vigny
• 415...1919 for Houbigant
• 417...1919 for Houbigant
• 421...1919 for Bourjois
• 423...1919 for La Perla
• 430...1919 for Gueldy
• 432...1925 for Gabilla
• 435...1923 for Volnay
• 437...1919 for Molinard
• 440...1919 for Volnay, for Violet in 1933
• 444...1919 for Fioret
• 445...1919 for Fioret
• 448...1913 for Bichara
• 449...1920 for Oriza Legrand
• 455...1955 for Gal
• 460...1920 for Peggy Hoyt
• 464...1920 for Delettrez
• 473...1920 for D'Hortys
• 475...1921 for Guerlain
• 477...1921 for Lubin
• 478...1921 for Fontanis, 1931 for Mori
• 479...1921 for Fontanis
• 480...1921 for Maudy, 1923 for Fontanis
• 484...1921 for Molinard
• 487...1922 for Gabilla
• 489...1913 for LT Piver
• 493...1922 for Vigny
• 494...1923 for Marquay
• 495...1922 for Dorilly
• 500...1935 for D'Orsay
• 505...1923 for LT Piver
• 506...1923 for D'Orsay and in 1928 for Silka
• 507...1923 for Fontanis
• 508...1923 for Arys
• 509...1923 for Frères Gellé
• 510...1923 for Forest
• 512...1923 for Forest
• 513...1923 for Dorilly
• 514...1923 for Madhva
• 515...1923 for Madhva
• 516...1923 for Madhva
• 517...1923 for Sari, and Madhva
• 519...1923 for Rimmel
• 521...1924 for Jean Patou
• 522...1923 for Rimmel
• 523...1925 for Rimmel
• 524...1919 for De Vigny, Salancy in1920,& Molyneux in 1940.
• 525...1924 for Grande Maison de Blanc
• 526...1926 for Grenoville
• 527...1924 for Boucicaut Maison
• 528...1924 for Lentheric
• 531...1925 for Jean Patou
• 532...1925 for Thomas Jones
• 535...1924 for City of Paris
• 538...1924 for Coryse,used in 1926 for Lasco, & in 1928 for Guerlain,& Les Parfums Guilhene
• 543...1919/1924 for Fioret
• 548...1925 for LT Piver
• 549...1925 for Gabilla
• 550...1919/1925 for LT Piver
• 552...1925 for Silka
• 553...1924 for Gabilla
• 557...1925 for Weil
• 562...1925 for Lubin and also for Parfise
• 563...1929 for Beaucaire
• 564...1925 for Volnay
• 568...1925 for Godet
• 569...1922 for Caron
• 570...1925 for Caron
• 571...1928 for deMusset
• 572...1916 for Caron
• 573...1925 for Agnel
• 574...1925 for Peggy Hoyt
• 579...1925 for Albavera of France
• 580...1925 for Marcel Guerlain
• 583...1925-1928 for Ybry
• 590...1925-1934 for Corday & Blanche Avroy in 1925
• 591...1925 for Corday
• 593...1925 for Vigny
• 597...1926 for Guerlain
• 598...1926 for Guerlain
• 600...1926 for Gravier
• 601...1926 for Jovoy
• 604...1926 for Silka
• 608...1926 for Biette
• 609...1926 for Biette
• 610...1936 for Soubise
• 611...1926 for Daubigny
• 617...1926 for Fontanis
• 621...1926 for Gabilla
• 625...1926 for Corday
• 633...1927 for Delettrez
• 636...1927 for Miga
• 638...1927 for LT Piver
• 640...1924 for Pleville
• 641...1927 for Volnay
• 644...1929 for Maudy,Fontanis
• 645...1927 for Delettrez
• 647...1925 for Fourrures Max
• 648...1927 for Jane Regny
• 650...1927 Violet
• 654...1928 for Corday
• 655...1928 for E. Blondel
• 656...1928 for Prince de Chany
• 659...1928 for Morlet
• 600...1928 for Maudy
• 661...1928 for Jean Patou
• 664...1928 for Volnay
• 665...1928 for Myon
• 667...1928 for Myon
• 669...1928 for Robj
• 670...1928 for Maudy
• 673...1921 for Silka
• 678...1924 for Guerlain
• 679...1929 for Guerlain
• 681...1929 for Les Parfums de Burmann
• 687...1929 for Silka and Mori
• 695...1929 for ES Patanwalla
• 701...1929 for Gabilla
• 711...1930 for Guerlain
• 712...1930 for Silka
• 713...1930 for Houbigant
• 719...1930 for Myon
• 723...1931 for Casino de Paris
• 728...1931 for Ciro
• 734...1933 for Hennessy
• 738...1934 for Hennessy
• 741...1933 for Ballarde Inc
• 744...1933 for Guerlain
• 746...1933 for Ciro
• 748...1934 for Rallet
• 750...1934 for Myon
• 751...1934 for Molinard, 1925 for Lucien Lelong
• 752...1935 for Corday
• 757...1935 for D'Orsay
• 758...1935 for Coty
• 759...1936 for Guerlain
• 759...1936 for Roger et Gallet
• 760...1936 for Coty
• 762...1936 for Godet
• 765...1936 for Coty
• 770...1937 for Guerlain
• 771...1933 for Guerlain
• 773...1937 for Guerlain
• 776...1938 for Elizabeth Arden
• 777...1938 for Ciro
• 778...1939 for Schiaparelli
• 781...1939 for Elizabeth Arden
• 782...1939/1941 for Suzy
• 786...1939 for Corday
• 787...1939 for Lanville
• 791...1934 for Richard Richebois
• 792...1942 for Gustav Lohse
• 793...1944 for D'Orsay
• 794...1945 for Laboratoire Baril
• 795...1945 for LMBC Elbeuf (Louise Marbec-Marquis)
• 796...1945 for Vibert Freres
• 798...1945 for Schiaparelli
• 800...1945 for Paquin
• 801...1950 for Verlayne
• 802...1945 for Arys
• 803...1946 for Verlayne
• 805...1950 for Lancome
• 806...1946 for Caron
• 807...1947 for Caron
• 808...1946 for Coty
• 809...1947 for Caron
• 810...1948 for Marcel Rochas
• 814...1949 for Christian Dior
• 816...1954 for Guerlain
• 819...1956 for Christian Dior
• 820...1957 for Christian Dior
• 821...1959 for Coty
• 824...1961 for Société Virginia
• 826...1963 for unknown perfumer
• 827...for Christian Dior
• 832...1974 for Jean Patou
• 835...1986 for Caron
• 836...1981 for JAR Parfum
• 915...1949 for Gourielli
• 1550..2001 for Christian Dior
• 1556..2006 for Burberry

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