A CHELSEA GOLD-MOUNTED SCENT-BOTTLE AND STOPPER modelled as a gardener seated on a tree-stump holding a basket filled with flowers and fruit on his lap, inscribed in iron-red CUEILLI POUR LA PLUS BELLE, a spaniel at his feet, and offering a fruit to a youth standing at his side, painted in colours and enriched in gilding, with gold mount to the neck and the stopper formed as a bunch of fruit, the underside to the dome base gilt with a flower-spray within a green dentil rim (gardener's head restuck, minor chipping to foliage and chip to footrim), circa 1760

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A CHELSEA GOLD-MOUNTED SCENT-BOTTLE AND STOPPER modelled as a gardener seated on a tree-stump holding a basket filled with flowers and fruit on his lap, inscribed in iron-red CUEILLI POUR LA PLUS BELLE, a spaniel at his feet, and offering a fruit to a youth standing at his side, painted in colours and enriched in gilding, with gold mount to the neck and the stopper formed as a bunch of fruit, the underside to the dome base gilt with a flower-spray within a green dentil rim (gardener's head restuck, minor chipping to foliage and chip to footrim), circa 1760
7.5cm. high

Lot Essay

Cf. G.E. Bryant, op. cit., pl. 16, no. 5 and Yvonne Hackenbroch, Chelsea and other English Porcelain, The Irwin Untermyer Collection, pl. 73, no. 165

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