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Lot 72
8 June 2005, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £5,280 inc. premium
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Find your local specialistA fine Battersea enamel wine label
circa 1753-56
engraved by Ravenet after a design by James Gwin, printed in puce and lightly overpainted in colours with Cupid holding a flag, a military encampment in the distance and a helmet on the ground beside him, titled 'Claret', 6.5cm (a few minute chips, small loss to the enamel around the left hand suspension hole)
engraved by Ravenet after a design by James Gwin, printed in puce and lightly overpainted in colours with Cupid holding a flag, a military encampment in the distance and a helmet on the ground beside him, titled 'Claret', 6.5cm (a few minute chips, small loss to the enamel around the left hand suspension hole)
Footnotes
Provenence: Geoffrey D Hobson and Major H C Dent Collection, Sotheby's 1 December 1955, lot 142. A similar example is illustrated by Egan Mew, fig 21
