Lot Essay
A similar example was sold in these Rooms on 20 October 1986, lot 150. See also Kate Foster, Scent Bottles, col. pl. V, for the casket painted by the same hand, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum
Details
A 'GIRL-IN-A-SWING' CYLINDRICAL NEEDLE-CASE
Circa 1755, Charles Gouyn's factory
The two parts painted with bouquets and scattered flower-sprays including pansies, with later gold dentil mounts (the lower part cracked and repaired, extended crack to upper part from rim, enamels rubbed), containing later giltmetal and steel needles
4 1/4in. (11cm.) long
See illustration on page ...
Circa 1755, Charles Gouyn's factory
The two parts painted with bouquets and scattered flower-sprays including pansies, with later gold dentil mounts (the lower part cracked and repaired, extended crack to upper part from rim, enamels rubbed), containing later giltmetal and steel needles
4 1/4in. (11cm.) long
See illustration on page ...