Wedgwood and Beyond: English Ceramics from the Starr Collection

Wedgwood and Beyond: English Ceramics from the Starr Collection

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A ST. JAMES'S (CHARLES GOUYN) PORCELAIN GOLD-MOUNTED SCENT BOTTLE AND STOPPER AND PATCH BOX CIRCA 1750-54

Auction Closed

October 23, 06:38 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A ST. JAMES'S (CHARLES GOUYN) PORCELAIN GOLD-MOUNTED SCENT BOTTLE AND STOPPER AND PATCH BOX CIRCA 1750-54


modeled as a female figure painted with flower sprigs, holding a basket with hinged cover, her head forming the chained detachable cover.

Height 3⅜ in.

8.6 cm

Steppes Hill Farm Antiques, Kent

Sotheby's New York, October 11, 1995, lot 382

Another example of this rare model in the Irwin Untermyer Collection is illustrated by Yvonne Hackenbroch, Chelsea and Other English Porcelain, 1957, pl. 67, fig. 174; a second was sold at Sotheby's London, December 14, 1972, lot 104. A variation of the model was produced in which the basket the figure holds is filled with flowers rather than functioning as a patch box; such an example was in the collection of Mrs. Meyer Sassoon, sold, Sotheby's London, October 12, 1965, lot 40.