Live Auction 21907Bayreuth: A Connoisseur's Collection of English Silver and Gold Boxes
A GEORGE III JEWELLED ENAMELLED GOLD SCENT BOTTLE
Lot 81

A GEORGE III JEWELLED ENAMELLED GOLD SCENT BOTTLE

BY JAMES MORISSET (FL.1738–1815), LONDON, 1787

Closed7 July 2023

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GBP 6,000–8,000

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A GEORGE III JEWELLED ENAMELLED GOLD SCENT BOTTLE
BY JAMES MORISSET (FL.1738–1815), LONDON, 1787
Baluster shaped, with blue guilloché enamel panels on engine-turned wavy ground scattered with pellets and set with diamond foliate mounts and oval medallion with hair braid behind glass, within light blue and white enamelled borders with gold laurel, with similar threaded cap and gold stopper, in original fitted case, marked on base and inside cap
3 in. (76 mm.) high
gross weight 1 oz. 9 dwt. (46 gr.)

Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 17 April 1996, lot 17.

Specialist note


Of Huguenot descent, James Morisset is one of London’s most celebrated makers of enamelled gold dress-swords, boxes and objects of vertu. Praised for his enamel work en par with continental work, Morisset worked closely with his nephew Augustin Toussaint (1768–1785), a miniaturist and enameller.