Wedgwood and Beyond: English Ceramics from the Starr Collection
Wedgwood and Beyond: English Ceramics from the Starr Collection
A ST. JAMES'S (CHARLES GOUYN) OR CHELSEA PORCELAIN SCENT BOTTLE AND STOPPER CIRCA 1755
Auction Closed
October 23, 06:38 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A ST. JAMES'S (CHARLES GOUYN) OR CHELSEA PORCELAIN SCENT BOTTLE AND STOPPER CIRCA 1755
modeled as Cupid pointing to a clock supported amidst the branches of a rose tree by a scantily clad Venus, a spotted seated between them and inscribed around the arched sides of the base L'HEURE DU BERGER FIDELLE, gilt-metal mount.
Height 2⅞ in.
7.4 cm
Guitel Montague, New York
Sotheby's New York, April 5, 2007, lot 171
Kate Foster illustrates another example of this model in her paper 'Chelsea Scent Bottles - 'Girl in a Swing' and another Group', Transactions of the English Ceramic Circle, 1967, Vol. VI, pt. 3, pl. 213 (a), listed on p. 288 as no. 11 in the "second Category" of these types of scent bottles. Another similar example from the Collection of V. Ethel Crosby was sold in these rooms, April 24, 1992, lot 148.