CIRCA 1755

Details

A CHELSEA SCENT-BOTTLE AND STOPPER
CIRCA 1755
Formed as a bouquet of auriculars, buds and leaves, issuing from a tripod branch base entwined with tendrils, the stopper formed as a butterfly resting on a bloom, with gold mounts and chain (one flower chipped, some other minor scattered chips to leaves and petals)
3 in. (7.6 cm.) high

Provenance

Mrs D.L. Conner Collection, sale Christie's London, 30th November 1964, lot 120 (125 gns. to Winifred Williams)
Ernesto Blohm Collection.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

For another variant example of this model also in the Otto Blohm Collection, see sale Sotheby's, London, 9th October 1961, lot 516, and G.E. Bryant, The Chelsea Porcelain Toys (London, 1925), pl. 14, fig. 6.

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