CIRCA 1825-35, THE SILVER-GILT SCENT-BOTTLE COVER LATER

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THREE BACCARAT CUT-GLASS SULPHIDE ITEMS AND A SCENT-BOTTLE AND COVER
Circa 1825-35, the silver-gilt scent-bottle cover later
Including: two patch boxes and covers, one with a portrait of the Duc de Bordeaux as a child, after the medalist Dubois, the other with a tiny putto seated on a rose blossom; and two cut-glass scent bottles, stoppers and covers, one with a portrait of the military officer Prince Bernhard Carl of Saksen Weimar-Eisenach, the truncation inscribed in blue H.(ertog) v.(an) Saksen Weimar, the reverse impressed MT; the other Baccarat with a portrait of Napoleon I in the guise of Caesar, after the medalist Andrieu
3¼ in. (8.3 cm.) high, the largest (8)

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Lot Essay

For a similar sulphide scent-bottle see Paul Jokelson, Sulphides, The Art of Cameo Incrustation, New York, 1968, p. 83, fig. 77. Here the reverse is stamped 'C.A.' and the portrait is thought to be William I, King of the Netherlands. The inscription on the present bottle is for H.v. Saken Weimar. Prince Bernhard was a distinguished officer, who, in 1815, after the congress of Vienna, became colonel of a regiment in the service of the King of the Netherlands. As commander of the 2nd Brigade of the 2nd Dutch Division, he played a decisive role for Wellington at both the Battle of Quatre Bras and at the Battle of Waterloo.

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