1750-1870

Details

A CONTINENTAL GOLD AND WEDGWOOD-MOUNTED JADE SCENT BOTTLE
1750-1870
The flattened, faceted white jade bottle is mounted with 18K gold foliate banding along the edge and on the two sides where they suspend and frame a white-on-blue Wedgwood plaque, one depicting a lion attacking a bull and one depicting a child suckling a wolf.
2 3/8 in. (6.1 cm.) high, original Wedgwood, gold and pearl stopper

Provenance

Robert Kleiner, Belfont Company Ltd., Hong Kong, 2009.
Ruth and Carl Barron Collection, Belmont, Massachusetts, no. 4882.

Special notice

This lot is offered without reserve.

Lot Essay

This unusual bottle was most likely fashioned as a scent bottle in the 18th or 19th century. The small Wedgwood plaques were made in a variety of colors at the factory in England, and were used as embellishments on a variety of jewelry and objets de vertu in both England and the Continent. The elegant and sophisticated combination, of a jade bottle, with a Wedgwood plaque within Continental gold mounts, is extremely rare.

For related small Wedgwood plaques dating from 1776-1790, see R. Reilly, Wedgwood, London, 1989, p. 528, pl. c131, and p.540.

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