Lot Essay
Cf. G.E. Bryant, The Chelsea Porcelain Toys (London, 1925), pl. 15, fig. 6, and also see the example sold in these Rooms on 1st October 1984, lot 206.
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CIRCA 1765
Details
A CHELSEA GOLD-MOUNTED SCENT-BOTTLE AND STOPPER
CIRCA 1765
Modelled as a youth teasing a goat around a tree-trunk encrusted with fruiting vine, wearing a turquoise hat, a blue, purple and gilt flowered coat and puce breeches, on a mound inscribed to the underside in iron-red VOUS LE MERITEZ above a gilt flower-spray below a green dentil rim, the stopper formed from a cluster of fruit, the mounts engraved with a band of scrolling foliage, linked with a chain (very minor chipping to extremities, flaking to gilding on underside and minor areas of wear)
3 in. (7.6 cm.) high
CIRCA 1765
Modelled as a youth teasing a goat around a tree-trunk encrusted with fruiting vine, wearing a turquoise hat, a blue, purple and gilt flowered coat and puce breeches, on a mound inscribed to the underside in iron-red VOUS LE MERITEZ above a gilt flower-spray below a green dentil rim, the stopper formed from a cluster of fruit, the mounts engraved with a band of scrolling foliage, linked with a chain (very minor chipping to extremities, flaking to gilding on underside and minor areas of wear)
3 in. (7.6 cm.) high
Provenance
Otto and Magdalena Blohm Collection, sale Sotheby's London, 24th April, 1961, lot 258 (£140 to Marshall)
Beatrice Blohm von Rumohr Collection.
Beatrice Blohm von Rumohr Collection.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.