A CHELSEA GOLD AND ENAMEL-MOUNTED BONBONNIERE modelled as a lady's head, her lace mob-cap enriched in blue and with a puce rose and three feathers at the front and a pink bow at the back, her face naturally tinted and with scattered black patches, the interior with scattered flower-sprays, the stamped gold mount with flowers and C-scrolls and the hinged enamel cover painted with a loose bouquet within a shaped gilt line cartouche reserved on a blue ground gilt with flowering foliage, the border inscribed in gilt JE SUIS L'AME DE LA SOCIETE on a white enamel band (the bonbonniere with haircrack to rim and restoration to pink bow, the cover with cracks and restorations), circa 1758
Details
A CHELSEA GOLD AND ENAMEL-MOUNTED BONBONNIERE modelled as a lady's head, her lace mob-cap enriched in blue and with a puce rose and three feathers at the front and a pink bow at the back, her face naturally tinted and with scattered black patches, the interior with scattered flower-sprays, the stamped gold mount with flowers and C-scrolls and the hinged enamel cover painted with a loose bouquet within a shaped gilt line cartouche reserved on a blue ground gilt with flowering foliage, the border inscribed in gilt JE SUIS L'AME DE LA SOCIETE on a white enamel band (the bonbonniere with haircrack to rim and restoration to pink bow, the cover with cracks and restorations), circa 1758
8cm. long
Provenance
Ernesto F. Blohm Collection, sale Christie's, 10 April 1989, lot 9
Lot Essay
Cf. the example from the Rous Lench Collection sold in these Rooms on 30 May 1990, lot 353