Scent Bottle and Stopper
ca. 1755 (made)
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Scent bottle and stopper of porcelain, painted with enamels.
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| Accession number | 414:281/&A-1885 |
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| Record created | December 23, 2008 |
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