Wedgwood and Beyond: English Ceramics from the Starr Collection
Wedgwood and Beyond: English Ceramics from the Starr Collection
A ST. JAMES (CHARLES GOUYN) PORCELAIN GOLD-MOUNTED BONBONNIERE AND COVER IN THE FORM OF A LADY'S HEAD CIRCA 1752-55
Auction Closed
October 23, 06:38 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A ST. JAMES (CHARLES GOUYN) PORCELAIN GOLD-MOUNTED BONBONNIERE AND COVER IN THE FORM OF A LADY'S HEAD CIRCA 1752-55
modeled wearing a mob-cap trimmed with a puce-patterned ribbon, her forehead and chin applied with tiny black patches, the enamel cover finely painted on the exterior and interior with flower sprays, with a hinged gold mount.
Height 2 in.
5 cm
The Collection of Otto and Magdalena Blohm, Sotheby's London, July 4, 1960, lot 33
The Collections of Hanns and Elisabeth Weinberg and the Antique Company of New York, Sotheby's New York, November 10-11, 2006, lot 136
Harrison, Ars Ceramica, 2019, no. 31, p. 122, fig. 7
Examples of this rare model include those in the Metropolotian Museum of Art, New York, for which see Yvonne Hackenbroch, Chelsea in the Urwin Untermyer Collection, London, 1957, pl. 69, fig. 216; Property of the Estate of the Late Mrs. Charles E. Dunlap, sold, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, Inc., New York, December 3, 1975, 153; and the von Pannwitz Collection, Munich, sold, Hugo Helbing, October 24-25, 1905, plate LVI, fig. 497.