A CHELSEA GOLD-MOUNTED DOUBLE-SCENT-BOTTLE MODELLED AS A PARROT AND A ROOSTER, their heads forming the stoppers, their plumage painted in bright colours and with a small tree-stump behind, the domed base painted with scattered flowers and with a gilt dentil rim, the underside with a loose bouquet (restoration round both necks, parrot with restoration to breast and top of right wing and head a restored replacement, rooster's beak restored, slight rubbing to gilt rim, gold mounts later), circa 1756
Details
A CHELSEA GOLD-MOUNTED DOUBLE-SCENT-BOTTLE MODELLED AS A PARROT AND A ROOSTER, their heads forming the stoppers, their plumage painted in bright colours and with a small tree-stump behind, the domed base painted with scattered flowers and with a gilt dentil rim, the underside with a loose bouquet (restoration round both necks, parrot with restoration to breast and top of right wing and head a restored replacement, rooster's beak restored, slight rubbing to gilt rim, gold mounts later), circa 1756
6.5cm. high
Provenance
Anon., sale Christie's, 20 October 1986, lot 158
Lot Essay
Cf. G.E. Bryant, op. cit., pl. 3, no. 1 and Kate Foster, op. cit., pl. 44 for a 'Girl-in-a-Swing' example