拍品專文
The form of this scent-bottle relates to the most sophisticated asymmetric rococo designs by Meissonnier of around 1730. The scenes of putti reflect prints by that master.
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LONDON, CIRCA 1745
細節
A GEORGE II GOLD SCENT-BOTTLE AND SEAL
LONDON, CIRCA 1745
asymmetrically-shaped flask, finely chased on one side with a putto blowing bubbles emblematic of air, on the other a putto with a trident emblematic of water, the sides with masks of river gods, the matrix of lapis lazuli carved with the initials M M below a Viscount's coronet, in fitted red leather case
2½ in. high
LONDON, CIRCA 1745
asymmetrically-shaped flask, finely chased on one side with a putto blowing bubbles emblematic of air, on the other a putto with a trident emblematic of water, the sides with masks of river gods, the matrix of lapis lazuli carved with the initials M M below a Viscount's coronet, in fitted red leather case
2½ in. high
榮譽呈獻
Dido Penny