A CHELSEA SCENT-BOTTLE AND STOPPER modelled as Cupid scantily draped garlanding a heart with flowers on a draped circular altar, before a flower-encrusted tree-stump, on a circular base, the underside with a gilt flower, the stopper formed as two billing doves (stopper and base chipped, later silver mount), circa 1765 | Christie's

Lot 74

A CHELSEA SCENT-BOTTLE AND STOPPER modelled as Cupid scantily draped garlanding a heart with flowers on a draped circular altar, before a flower-encrusted tree-stump, on a circular base, the underside with a gilt flower, the stopper formed as two billing doves (stopper and base chipped, later silver mount), circa 1765

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A CHELSEA SCENT-BOTTLE AND STOPPER modelled as Cupid scantily draped garlanding a heart with flowers on a draped circular altar, before a flower-encrusted tree-stump, on a circular base, the underside with a gilt flower, the stopper formed as two billing doves (stopper and base chipped, later silver mount), circa 1765
8.5cm. high overall

Lot Essay

Cf. G.E. Bryant, The Chelsea Porcelain Toys, pl. 10, no. 4 and the example sold in these Rooms on 1 October 1984, lot 226

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