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A good St James's (Charles Gouyn) bonbonnière modelled in the form of a lady's head, circa 1753-55 image 1
A good St James's (Charles Gouyn) bonbonnière modelled in the form of a lady's head, circa 1753-55 image 2
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A good St James's (Charles Gouyn) bonbonnière modelled in the form of a lady's head, circa 1753-55

17 May 2017, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

£5,000 - £7,000

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A good St James's (Charles Gouyn) bonbonnière modelled in the form of a lady's head, circa 1753-55

Wearing a plain bonnet trimmed with a patterned pink ribbon and painted with flowers and a cherry sprig, a black mask concealing the upper part of her face and acccentuating her diamond eyes, the frilled collar just visible above the scolled mount with white enamel panels inscribed 'LIGE ME PERD QUI ME NEG', the hinged cover in banded agate, 4.6cm high (minute chips to edge of bonnet)

Footnotes

For a similar example with an unmasked face, see Yvonne Hackenbroch, Chelsea in the Urwin Untermyer Collection (1957), pl.69, fig.216

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