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拍品专文
This intriguing scent-bottle is one of three examples with similar floral cartouches. For the other two, see Angela Corola Perroti, Le Porcellane dei Borbone di Napoli, pp. 251-252.
The portrait of 'Bonnie Prince Charlie' is taken from a print by Wille, after L. Tocque. Prince Charles Edward Stuart (1720-1788) was the grandson of the last Stuart King of England, the Roman Catholic James II, whose short three year reign came to an end in 1688 with the birth of a Roman Catholic heir to the throne. Also known as 'Young Pretender' or 'Bonnie Prince Charlie', in 1745 Prince Charles Stuart made an audacious attempt to put his father 'The Old Pretender' on the throne, but this came to grief at the battle of Culloden Moor in April, 1746 when his forces suffered a crushing defeat. His life was famously saved by Flora MacDonald who helped him escape to the Isle of Skye disguised as her maid 'Betty Burke'. From there he went into exile in France, where he became an alcoholic drifter before settling in Rome as the 'Duke of Albany'.
The reverse bears the arms of Mary Lady Hervey (née Lepell, 1700-1768), daughter of Brigadier General Nicholas Lepell, Groom of the Bedchamber to George, Prince of Denmark, and wife of Lord Hervey of Ickworth. Mary Lepell, was wooed by Lord Hervey while she was a Maid of Honour to the Princess of Wales, and they married in 1720. She was known for her beauty and wit, and her praises were sung by all her contemporaries, including Pope, Gay, Pulteney and Lord Chesterfield, and even Voltaire wrote verses in her honour. Chesterfield remarked that Mary 'knew more than was necessary for any woman, but had the wit to conceal it'.
It is not clear why Lady Hervey, who had no overt Jacobite sympathies, should have owned this scent-bottle, or why, or how it was produced at Capodimonte and mounted in England. By the time this bottle was made, she was a widow, and the most probable explanation is that she may have had an affair with the Prince, most probably in Italy (although he did visit London in cognito in 1750). It's possible that Lady Hervey may have been secretly Jacobite, and by the 1750s the Jacobite rebellion was viewed from a more romantic perspective, as it was no longer a serious political threat.
Left detail of reverse.
Right illustration is larger than actual size
The portrait of 'Bonnie Prince Charlie' is taken from a print by Wille, after L. Tocque. Prince Charles Edward Stuart (1720-1788) was the grandson of the last Stuart King of England, the Roman Catholic James II, whose short three year reign came to an end in 1688 with the birth of a Roman Catholic heir to the throne. Also known as 'Young Pretender' or 'Bonnie Prince Charlie', in 1745 Prince Charles Stuart made an audacious attempt to put his father 'The Old Pretender' on the throne, but this came to grief at the battle of Culloden Moor in April, 1746 when his forces suffered a crushing defeat. His life was famously saved by Flora MacDonald who helped him escape to the Isle of Skye disguised as her maid 'Betty Burke'. From there he went into exile in France, where he became an alcoholic drifter before settling in Rome as the 'Duke of Albany'.
The reverse bears the arms of Mary Lady Hervey (née Lepell, 1700-1768), daughter of Brigadier General Nicholas Lepell, Groom of the Bedchamber to George, Prince of Denmark, and wife of Lord Hervey of Ickworth. Mary Lepell, was wooed by Lord Hervey while she was a Maid of Honour to the Princess of Wales, and they married in 1720. She was known for her beauty and wit, and her praises were sung by all her contemporaries, including Pope, Gay, Pulteney and Lord Chesterfield, and even Voltaire wrote verses in her honour. Chesterfield remarked that Mary 'knew more than was necessary for any woman, but had the wit to conceal it'.
It is not clear why Lady Hervey, who had no overt Jacobite sympathies, should have owned this scent-bottle, or why, or how it was produced at Capodimonte and mounted in England. By the time this bottle was made, she was a widow, and the most probable explanation is that she may have had an affair with the Prince, most probably in Italy (although he did visit London in cognito in 1750). It's possible that Lady Hervey may have been secretly Jacobite, and by the 1750s the Jacobite rebellion was viewed from a more romantic perspective, as it was no longer a serious political threat.
Left detail of reverse.
Right illustration is larger than actual size