拍品专文
See G.E. Bryant, The Chelsea Porcelain Toys, London, 1925, plate 23, no. 1 for the first and plate 28, no. 6 for the second, both described as Chelsea.
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THE PROPERTY OF A FAMILY TRUST
TWO GOLD-MOUNTED ENGLISH SCENT BOTTLES AND STOPPERS
CIRCA 1755-1760, ONE THE ST. JAMES'S FACTORY OF CHARLES GOUYN, THE OTHER CHELSEA, COLLECTOR'S 718 AND 724 INSCRIBED TO THE RESPECTIVE UNDERSIDES
细节
TWO GOLD-MOUNTED ENGLISH SCENT BOTTLES AND STOPPERS
Circa 1755-1760, one the St. James's factory of Charles Gouyn, the other Chelsea, collector's 718 and 724 inscribed to the respective undersides
One modelled as a masked gardener's companion seated on a stone wall with a basket of grapes on her lap, picking grapes from the vine growing up from behind, the stopper as a small bird perched at the top of the vine, the surface of the domed base inscribed 'POUR MON AMOUR', the underside with a pink rose on a green pebbled ground; the other as Apollo and Daphne, the god grabbing the nymph around the waist as she metamorphoses into a laurel tree, his quiver of arrows suspended from a strap inscribed 'EVITER SON SORT', the finial as the tip of the laurel bush, the underside gilt and chased with a bouquet
3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm.) and 3 5/8 in. (9.3 cm.) (2)
Circa 1755-1760, one the St. James's factory of Charles Gouyn, the other Chelsea, collector's 718 and 724 inscribed to the respective undersides
One modelled as a masked gardener's companion seated on a stone wall with a basket of grapes on her lap, picking grapes from the vine growing up from behind, the stopper as a small bird perched at the top of the vine, the surface of the domed base inscribed 'POUR MON AMOUR', the underside with a pink rose on a green pebbled ground; the other as Apollo and Daphne, the god grabbing the nymph around the waist as she metamorphoses into a laurel tree, his quiver of arrows suspended from a strap inscribed 'EVITER SON SORT', the finial as the tip of the laurel bush, the underside gilt and chased with a bouquet
3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm.) and 3 5/8 in. (9.3 cm.) (2)
来源
Baron Max von Goldschmidt-Rothschild, Frankfurt-am-Main (Apollo and Daphne)
Property of a New York Private Collector; Sotheby's, New York, 22 April 1983, lots 337 (the grape picker) and 350 (Apollo and Daphne)
Property of a New York Private Collector; Sotheby's, New York, 22 April 1983, lots 337 (the grape picker) and 350 (Apollo and Daphne)
出版
Carl Christian Dauterman, The Wrightsman Collection, volume IV - Porcelain, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1970, p. 324, no. 133 (the grape picker)