A RARE FRENCH GOLD MOUNTED GLASS SCENT FLASK

Details

A RARE FRENCH GOLD MOUNTED GLASS SCENT FLASK
CIRCA 1750
French gold décharge mark

The panelled glass body of flattened pear-shape, scalloped gold rim mount with moulded border, the detachable stopper with openwork scroll and baluster finial on suspension chain
4¾in. (12.1cm) high, with original red velvet case;
sold together with a photostat of correspondence from Blaney Townley Balfour referring to the purchase of Cardinal York's scent bottle and other Jacobite relics from the Marquis Malatesta

Provenance

Henry Benedict, Cardinal York (Henry VX)
The Malatesta Family, Rome
Purchased by Blaney Townley Balfour, circa 1842
By Family Descent until circa 1985
Private Collection

Literature

Papers of Devotion of James II, Oxford University Press, 1925

Exhibited

The Monarchs of England, New Gallery, London, January 1902

Lot Essay

Several Jacobite relics from the Blaney Townley Balfour Collection were exhibited in 1902. The present scent bottle and also a seal of Cardinal York plus Stewart portraits including one of Cardinal York and another of his elder brother Prince Charles Edward Stuart

For further information on Henry Benedict, Cardinal York
See lot 190

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