Lot 243
243
A 'GIRL IN A SWING' GOLD-MOUNTED SCENT-BOTTLE ETUI modelled as a three-quarter length woman, her head forming the stopper, scantily draped in blue and puce and holding a basket of chestnuts, emerging from a slender tapering square column painted with loose bouquets and flower-sprays, the underside to the base with a pink rose (the waist mount later), circa 1755

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A 'GIRL IN A SWING' GOLD-MOUNTED SCENT-BOTTLE ETUI modelled as a three-quarter length woman, her head forming the stopper, scantily draped in blue and puce and holding a basket of chestnuts, emerging from a slender tapering square column painted with loose bouquets and flower-sprays, the underside to the base with a pink rose (the waist mount later), circa 1755
11.5cm. high

Lot Essay

Cf. G.E. Bryant, The Chelsea Porcelain Toys, pl. 55, no. 1 and Yvonne Hackenbrock, Chelsea and other English Porcelain, Pottery and Enamel in Irwin Untermyer Collection, pl. 61, fig. 229

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