Jewellery/Accessories: M0067

Title

Noel Coward's perfume atomiser

Technique

Mixed media

Subject

Coward, Noel Pierce (Sir)

Dimensions

Height: 5.4cm
Width: 3.8cm
Depth: 1.1cm

Other materials

Gold and red enamel

Inscription/signature

"NOEL COWARD 16.12.62" (engr. on side); "SOUVENIR GUIDO", "CONSUL Amor", "W GERMANY" (manufacturers marks)

Provenance

Presented to the Garrick Club by Florence Desmond, 1985

Other number

Gift 911

An entry in Noel Coward's diary [Ed. Graham Payn and Sheridan Morley, "The Noel Coward Diaries" 1982 p520] dated Thursday 20th December, tells us that he "became sixty-three on Sunday [16th - the date engraved on the side] and Gladys [Calthrop] gave a party - quite fun, but no party is one hundred per cent enjoyable if you neither drink nor smoke. However, I rose above it. It was a cheefully mixed bag. This perfume atomiser was presumably a birthday present.