A CHELSEA GILTMETAL-MOUNTED TRIPLE SCENT-BOTTLE modelled as two squirrels, one holding two berries in its paws and each forming a scent-bottle, seated erect on a tree-stump forming the third scent-bottle with the top of one branch as the stopper, the animals naturally coloured in iron-red and the stump applied with berried foliage, on a domed base with scattered flowers and gilt dentil rim, the underside with a loose bouquet (slight chip to underside of rim to base), circa 1756

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A CHELSEA GILTMETAL-MOUNTED TRIPLE SCENT-BOTTLE modelled as two squirrels, one holding two berries in its paws and each forming a scent-bottle, seated erect on a tree-stump forming the third scent-bottle with the top of one branch as the stopper, the animals naturally coloured in iron-red and the stump applied with berried foliage, on a domed base with scattered flowers and gilt dentil rim, the underside with a loose bouquet (slight chip to underside of rim to base), circa 1756
7cm. high

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