A 'GIRL-IN-A-SWING' GOLD-MOUNTED DOUBLE-SCENT-BOTTLE modelled as two billing doves with brightly coloured plumage, perched on a tree-stump with pink climbing-roses, the stoppers formed as brightly coloured insects, the domed base painted with two flower-sprays and the underside with a loose bouquet (slight chipping to foliage and to edge of base beneath the mount), circa 1755, the gold mount to the base perhaps later | Christie's

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A 'GIRL-IN-A-SWING' GOLD-MOUNTED DOUBLE-SCENT-BOTTLE modelled as two billing doves with brightly coloured plumage, perched on a tree-stump with pink climbing-roses, the stoppers formed as brightly coloured insects, the domed base painted with two flower-sprays and the underside with a loose bouquet (slight chipping to foliage and to edge of base beneath the mount), circa 1755, the gold mount to the base perhaps later

細節

A 'GIRL-IN-A-SWING' GOLD-MOUNTED DOUBLE-SCENT-BOTTLE modelled as two billing doves with brightly coloured plumage, perched on a tree-stump with pink climbing-roses, the stoppers formed as brightly coloured insects, the domed base painted with two flower-sprays and the underside with a loose bouquet (slight chipping to foliage and to edge of base beneath the mount), circa 1755, the gold mount to the base perhaps later
7.5cm. high

出版

Margaret Legge, op. cit., col. pl., p. 86, no. 202

展覽

Flowers and Fables, no. 202

拍品專文

Cf. G.E. Bryant, op. cit., pl. 3, no. 6, also Yvonne Hackenbroch, op. cit., Pl. 63, Fig. 83 and the examples sold in these Rooms on 2 June 1986, lot 196 and 12 February 1990, lot 52