Lot 59
59
A 'GIRL-IN-A-SWING' GOLD-MOUNTED SCENT-BOTTLE modelled as a standing Oriental gentleman holding a brightly coloured dove, his yellow-lined robe painted with a loose bouquet and scattered flowers and tied with a puce belt, his sash with a puce fringe, the neck with gold mount and his head and yellow conical hat forming the stopper, the underside to the mound base with a loose bouquet (restored chip to base at front and small restored chip to neck below the mount), circa 1755

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A 'GIRL-IN-A-SWING' GOLD-MOUNTED SCENT-BOTTLE modelled as a standing Oriental gentleman holding a brightly coloured dove, his yellow-lined robe painted with a loose bouquet and scattered flowers and tied with a puce belt, his sash with a puce fringe, the neck with gold mount and his head and yellow conical hat forming the stopper, the underside to the mound base with a loose bouquet (restored chip to base at front and small restored chip to neck below the mount), circa 1755
9.7cm. high
Provenance
Anon., sale Sotheby's, 4 May 1965, lot 33
Exhibited
Flowers and Fables, no. 204

Lot Essay

Cf. G.E. Bryant, op. cit., pl. 6, no. 5, also Yvonne Hackenbroch, op. cit., Pl. 67, Fig 115 and the example sold in these Rooms on 12 February 1990, lot 56

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