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Lot 82

A Baccarat enamelled gold foil bottle and stopper, circa 1830-40

29 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Baccarat enamelled gold foil bottle and stopper, circa 1830-40

Cylindrical, cut with fine pillar flutes, an oval panel to one side inset with cupid on a shell chariot pulled by butterflies enamelled in colours on gold foil, the shoulder and base cut with spiral fluting, with a star-cut stopper, 12.5cm high (stopper stuck)

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The subject is inspired by an engraving of Amor Volubile by Pierre-Charles Coqueret, after Raphael's series of the Six Amours. A tumbler with the same subject is illustrated by Paul H Dunlop, The Jokelson Collection of Antique Cameo Encrustation (1991), p.36, no.64 and by Fernando Montes de Oca, L'Age D'Or du Verre en France (2001), p.385, no.532. Montes de Oca suggests the enamel incrustation may have been produced by the accomplished by jeweller and goldsmith Jean-Alexandre Paris (1781-1850), who invented the method of including his enamels in glass. A flask with this subject on silver foil is illustrated by Montes de Oca at p.385, no.533.

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