Lot Essay
Cf. Kate Foster, Scent Bottles (London, 1966), p. 64, pl. 52, and also see G.E. Bryant, The Chelsea Porcelain Toys (London, 1925), pl. 57, fig. 1 for a similar figure.
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CIRCA 1755, OF 'GIRL-IN-THE-SWING' TYPE, THE GILDING LATER
Details
A GILT-METAL-MOUNTED SCENT-BOTTLE AND STOPPER
CIRCA 1755, OF 'GIRL-IN-THE-SWING' TYPE, THE GILDING LATER
Modelled as a gallant, his left hand tucked in his coat with a pink tricorn hat under his arm, wearing a turquoise-lined white coat gilt with sprays of flowers and pink breeches, standing before a tree-stump with caillouté pattern on a grassy mound, the underside with a pink rose (re-touching to gilding to base of stopper, some flaking to enamels on tree-stump, slight wear to extremeties, chain probably a replacement)
3 in. (7.6 cm.) high
CIRCA 1755, OF 'GIRL-IN-THE-SWING' TYPE, THE GILDING LATER
Modelled as a gallant, his left hand tucked in his coat with a pink tricorn hat under his arm, wearing a turquoise-lined white coat gilt with sprays of flowers and pink breeches, standing before a tree-stump with caillouté pattern on a grassy mound, the underside with a pink rose (re-touching to gilding to base of stopper, some flaking to enamels on tree-stump, slight wear to extremeties, chain probably a replacement)
3 in. (7.6 cm.) high
Provenance
Mrs. Meyer Sassoon Collection
Mrs. Derek Fitzgerald, sale Sotheby's, London, 4th May 1965, lot 6 (£140 to Winifred Williams)
Ernesto Blohm Collection, no. 92.
Mrs. Derek Fitzgerald, sale Sotheby's, London, 4th May 1965, lot 6 (£140 to Winifred Williams)
Ernesto Blohm Collection, no. 92.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.