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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Scent Bottle and Stopper

ca. 1755 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Scent bottle and stopper of porcelain, painted with enamels.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Scent Bottle
  • Stopper
Materials and techniques
Porcelain painted with enamels and with gold mount
Brief description
Scent bottle and stopper of porcelain, painted with enamels and with a gold mount, made by Charles Gouyn's factory, London, ca. 1755.
Physical description
Scent bottle and stopper of porcelain, painted with enamels.
Dimensions
  • Height: 7.6cm
  • Width: 3.2cm
Credit line
Given by Lady Charlotte Schreiber
Object history
Purchased by Lady Charlotte Schreiber from Van Minden, Rotterdam, for 6 shillings and 8 pence in October 1873.
Acquired as Chelsea porcelain.
For a discussion of scent bottles shapes indebted to Meissen prototypes produced by Charles Gouyn's factory see Errol Manners below.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Manners, Errol. Some Continental Influences on English Porcelain. English Ceramics Circle Transactions, 2007, Volume 19, part 3, pp 429-470. See fig. 50 for a Meissen scent bottle of similar shape (circa 1745) and fig. 51 for an almost identical Charles Gouyn's factory example, circa 1753. The present scent bottle is similar but not identical to fig. 51.
Other number
Sch. I 234 - Schreiber number
Collection
Accession number
414:281/&A-1885

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Record createdDecember 23, 2008
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