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CIRCA 1760
Details
A CHELSEA GILT-METAL-MOUNTED BONBONNIERE
CIRCA 1760
Modelled as a youth clipping the hairs along the back of a wild boar, wearing a black hat, yellow-lined flowered coat and turquoise breeches, a strap over one shoulder inscribed in iron-red BAUCOUP:DE:BRUIT:POUR:PEUT:DE:LAINE, with scattered sprays to the interior, the hinged mount set with an enamel cover painted with flowers and applied with a barley-twist thumbpiece (minor crack to enamel cover, very minor scattered scratches to brim of hat)
2¼ in. (5.4 cm.) high
CIRCA 1760
Modelled as a youth clipping the hairs along the back of a wild boar, wearing a black hat, yellow-lined flowered coat and turquoise breeches, a strap over one shoulder inscribed in iron-red BAUCOUP:DE:BRUIT:POUR:PEUT:DE:LAINE, with scattered sprays to the interior, the hinged mount set with an enamel cover painted with flowers and applied with a barley-twist thumbpiece (minor crack to enamel cover, very minor scattered scratches to brim of hat)
2¼ in. (5.4 cm.) high
Provenance
Otto Blohm Collection, no. 1548a, sale Sotheby's, London, 4th July 1960, lot 37 (£400 to Stamford)
Beatrice Blohm von Rumohr Collection.
Beatrice Blohm von Rumohr Collection.
Literature
G.E. Bryant The Chelsea Porcelain Toys (London, 1925), pl. 48, fig. 1.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.