A GOLD-MOUNTED SCENT-BOTTLE AND STOPPER OF 'GIRL-IN-A-SWING' TYPE modelled as lovers, she seated holding a bird in a cage on her lap, her companion standing with his right hand resting on the cage and beside a tree-stump applied with a pink rose and foliage, he wearing yellow jacket and black trousers and she in a yellow bodice, her dress painted with pink roses and with a puce overskirt, the stopper modelled as two billing doves, the domed base inscribed in iron-red C'EST L'AMOUR QUI M'INSPIRE, the underside with a pink rose (he with crack to waist and chip to corner of jacket, chips to foliage, stopper repaired, gold mount to neck of scent-bottle lacking), circa 1755
Details
A GOLD-MOUNTED SCENT-BOTTLE AND STOPPER OF 'GIRL-IN-A-SWING' TYPE modelled as lovers, she seated holding a bird in a cage on her lap, her companion standing with his right hand resting on the cage and beside a tree-stump applied with a pink rose and foliage, he wearing yellow jacket and black trousers and she in a yellow bodice, her dress painted with pink roses and with a puce overskirt, the stopper modelled as two billing doves, the domed base inscribed in iron-red C'EST L'AMOUR QUI M'INSPIRE, the underside with a pink rose (he with crack to waist and chip to corner of jacket, chips to foliage, stopper repaired, gold mount to neck of scent-bottle lacking), circa 1755
10cm. high
Provenance
Mrs. Meyer Sassoon
Mrs. Derek Fitzgerald, sale Sotheby's, 4 May 1965, lot 22
Thomas M. Cole Esq., sale Christie's, 21 April 1969, lot 152
Anon., sale Christie's, 20 October 1986, lot 157