Live Auction 14223The English Collector: English Furniture, Clocks, European Ceramics & Portrait Miniatures
A CHELSEA GOLD-MOUNTED SCENT-BOTTLE AND STOPPER
Lot 102

A CHELSEA GOLD-MOUNTED SCENT-BOTTLE AND STOPPER

CIRCA 1760

Closed17 May 2017

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GBP 4,375

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A CHELSEA GOLD-MOUNTED SCENT-BOTTLE AND STOPPER
CIRCA 1760
Modelled as two dolphins encircling a fountain, issuing from a scalloped shell, the underside of the domed base painted with a loose flower-spray
3 3/8 in. (8.5 cm.) high overall

Specialist note

For another example of this model see Carl Christian Dauterman, The Wrightsman Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1970, volume IV, p. 321, no. 130.