細節
A 'GIRL-IN-A-SWING' GOLD-MOUNTED SNUFF-BOX-SCENT-BOTTLE AND STOPPER
CIRCA 1755, CHARLES GOUYN'S FACTORY, ST. JAMES'S, LONDON
Modelled as Harlequin standing by a barrel, masked and wearing typical costume, holding a beaker of wine and a slap-stick, the mound and barrel painted with bouquets, scattered sprigs and an insect, the underside of the domed base painted with a flower-spray, the hinged mount to the barrel inscribed LE PLUS BON on enamel panels, the neck and stopper with mounts joined by a chain, the footrim mounted (restored to the rim of the barrel, Harlequin broken through ankles and restored, slap-stick partially lacking and restored, further minor small damages and repairs)
3¾ in. (8.6 cm.) high
來源
Emma Budge Collection, no. 650, sale Paul Graupe, Berlin, 27-29 September, 1937, lot 713.
Otto and Magdalena Blohm Collection; Sotheby's London, 9 October 1961, lot 497.
Stewart Granger Collection; Christie's London, 20 May 1963, lot 96 (900 gns. to the Antique Porcelain Company).
Ernesto Blohm Collection, no. 89.
出版
Robert Schmidt, Porcelain as an Art and a Mirror of Fashion, fig. 102.
F. Hofmann, Das Porzellan, fig. 482.
注意事項
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium