A CHELSEA METAL-MOUNTED SCENT-BOTTLE AND STOPPER modelled as Cupid with a quiver slung from his shoulder seated on the back of a donkey before a flower-encrusted tree-stump, the bridle inscribed in iron-red TELS SONT MES SECTATEURS and edged with gilding, the domed base applied with flowers, the underside gilt with a flower-spray within a gilt dentil rim, the stopper formed as a bouquet (one wing lacking, chip to other wing, tip of one of donkey's ears lacking, chips to stopper, enamels slightly rubbed), circa 1760 | Christie's

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A CHELSEA METAL-MOUNTED SCENT-BOTTLE AND STOPPER modelled as Cupid with a quiver slung from his shoulder seated on the back of a donkey before a flower-encrusted tree-stump, the bridle inscribed in iron-red TELS SONT MES SECTATEURS and edged with gilding, the domed base applied with flowers, the underside gilt with a flower-spray within a gilt dentil rim, the stopper formed as a bouquet (one wing lacking, chip to other wing, tip of one of donkey's ears lacking, chips to stopper, enamels slightly rubbed), circa 1760

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A CHELSEA METAL-MOUNTED SCENT-BOTTLE AND STOPPER modelled as Cupid with a quiver slung from his shoulder seated on the back of a donkey before a flower-encrusted tree-stump, the bridle inscribed in iron-red TELS SONT MES SECTATEURS and edged with gilding, the domed base applied with flowers, the underside gilt with a flower-spray within a gilt dentil rim, the stopper formed as a bouquet (one wing lacking, chip to other wing, tip of one of donkey's ears lacking, chips to stopper, enamels slightly rubbed), circa 1760
8cm. high

拍品专文

Cf. Yvonne Hackenbroch, op. cit., pl. 66, no. 129