A group of six English porcelain silver-mounted scent bottles in the form of bird's eggs circa 1885

each naturalistically painted, with silver screw caps, printed registration numbers 20772 for James Macintyre, Washington China Works, Burslem, England. Together with three silver-mounted porcelain nut-form scent bottles, a silver-mounted pink glass egg-form bottle and a Continental brass-mounted porcelain berry-form bottle, each with silver screw caps. 22 pieces.

Please note that the bottles have not been examined beneath the silver screws. The pink glass bottle has some minor rubbing to the enamel on the bottom. Otherwise all in good condition.
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