A CHELSEA PORCELAIN BONBONNIÈRE AND ENAMEL COVER EMBLAMATIC OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE CIRCA 1755

painted on the interior and the exterior of the cover with flower sprays, gilt metal mounts.

Collection of Frau Emma Budge, Hamburg, bearing the collection label
Collection of Otto and Magdalena Blohm, sold, Sotheby's, London, July 4, 1960, lot 36

This lot is sold with the cooperation of the Estate of Emma Budge.

The porcelain is in good condition. The enamel cover has a number of very fine typical haircracks but is in otherwise good condition.
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The present example appears to be part of a series of boxes molded with symbols of various arts and sciences.  A bonbonnière emblamatic of geography and astronomy molded with a compass, sextant, telescope and chart, also from the Collection of Otto and Magdalena Blohm, was sold at Sotheby's, London, July 4, 1960, lot 34, and is illustrated by G. E. Bryant, The Chelsea Porcelain Toys, Col. Pl. 49; and another with musical instruments, from the Irwin Untermyer collection, is illustrated by Yvonne Hackenbroch, Chelsea  and other English Porcelain Pottery and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, pl.68.