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Lot 78

8 June 2005, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£2,500 - £3,000

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A fine Battersea enamel wine label

circa 1753-56
engraved by Ravenet after a design by James Gwin, printed in brownish black and overpainted in colours with a naked little black boy, his arm around a leopard's neck feeding him grapes, titled 'Cape', 6.8cm (one suspension hole lacking, the other restored and a small loss to lower left rim)

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Provenance: Frances L. Dickson Collection, Sotheby's 3rd June, 1954, lot 61. An example of this individual design is illustrated by John Salter, Wine Labels, p. 297 and fig. 1005, and by Susan Benjamin, English Enamel Boxes, p.39.

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