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A RARE PAIR OF SILVER-GILT AND ENAMEL SCENT BOTTLES
Lot 180PROPERTY FROM THE ROSTROPOVICH-VISHNEVSKAYA COLLECTION

A RARE PAIR OF SILVER-GILT AND ENAMEL SCENT BOTTLES

SOLVYCHEGODSK, LATE 17TH CENTURY

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A RARE PAIR OF SILVER-GILT AND ENAMEL SCENT BOTTLES
SOLVYCHEGODSK, LATE 17TH CENTURY
Each hexagonal, the sides enamelled with stylised flowers centring cartouches, one bottle with cartouches depicting birds, the other with flowers and two portraits, with detachable tops, apparently unmarked
3 1⁄4 in. (8.3 cm.) high

Blanche Vere Ponsonby (née Guest), Countess of Bessborough (1847-1919) (label under base).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 16 October 1986, lot 104.
Rostropovich - Vishnevskaya: The Private Collection; Sotheby's, London, 28 November 2018, lot 3.

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For a comparable scent bottle from the State Hermitage Museum, see N. V. Kalyazina, G. Kamelova et al., Russian enamels of 12-20th centuries from the collection of the Hermitage, Leningrad, 1987, no. 51.