A GOLD-MOUNTED SCENT-BOTTLE AND STOPPER OF 'GIRL IN A SWING' TYPE modelled as Harlequin and Columbine, she holding a flask and goblet, wearing yellow bodice and her skirt painted with pink roses, seated before a tree-stump entwined with fruiting-vine, Harlequin wearing a black mask and chequered clothes emerging from behind proffering her a large fruit, the domed circular base inscribed TOUJOURS GAY, the underside painted with a pink rose, the stopper modelled as a bird pecking at a bunch of grapes (very minor chipping to foliage), circa 1755

细节

A GOLD-MOUNTED SCENT-BOTTLE AND STOPPER OF 'GIRL IN A SWING' TYPE modelled as Harlequin and Columbine, she holding a flask and goblet, wearing yellow bodice and her skirt painted with pink roses, seated before a tree-stump entwined with fruiting-vine, Harlequin wearing a black mask and chequered clothes emerging from behind proffering her a large fruit, the domed circular base inscribed TOUJOURS GAY, the underside painted with a pink rose, the stopper modelled as a bird pecking at a bunch of grapes (very minor chipping to foliage), circa 1755
10cm. high

出版

G.E. Bryant, op. cit., pl. 25, no. 4

拍品专文

Cf. The Cheyne Book of Chelsea China and Pottery, pl. 27, no. 4, Yvonne Hackenbroch, Chelsea and other English Porcelain, Pottery and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, pl. 73, no. 162 and the example offered in these Rooms on 21 April, 1969, lot 149