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Lot 49

A rare South Staffordshire enamel scent bottle
Circa 1770.

8 April 2009, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A rare South Staffordshire enamel scent bottle

Circa 1770.
Modelled as two doves garlanded with colourful flowers, their beaks holding a scroll tied in a love-knot and inscribed in French, 8.7cm high (some patches of restoration)

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For a similar bottle, see Therle and Bernard Hughes, English Painted Enamels (1951), fig 67, p 119. Also Kate Foster, Scent Bottles (1966), pl. 41, p. 53.

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