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Lot 80

A gold-mounted Chelsea mazarin-ground scent-bottle, circa 1765

13 April 2016, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A gold-mounted Chelsea mazarin-ground scent-bottle, circa 1765

Of flattened, slightly-tapering shape, painted on both sides with panels of a young man playing a guitar and a fashionable young lady, the gilded frames including the inscriptions 'VOUS LAMITIE LOFFRE' and 'VOUS DAMITIE LOFFRE', with a gold screw top and inner gold flame stopper, 8.7cm long, unmarked but Gold Anchor period (some wear to the gilding)

Footnotes

A closely-related example with curved sides is in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, see Yvonne Hackenbroch's catalogue (1957), pl.61, fig. 182. Two others of the same shape as the present lot, but with claret grounds are shown by G.E.Bryant, The Chelsea Porcelain Toys (1925), pl.2, figs.2 and 5. A further example from the Hurlbutt Collection is shown by F Severne Mackenna, Chelsea, The Gold Anchor Wares, pl.61, fig.119.

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