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

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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

Lot Essay

Cf. G.E. Bryant, op. cit., pl. 25, no. 3

See illustration on page ??

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