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Scent bottle
Possibly made by: Meissen Manufactory (Germany)
Porcelain: Possibly German; Mounts: French (Paris)
Porcelain: 1725–50?; Mounts: 1756–62
Medium/Technique
Hard-paste porcelain decorated in gold foil and red and green enamel; silver-gilt mounts
Dimensions
10.9 x 4.5 x 2.1 cm (4 5/16 x 1 3/4 x 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Forsyth Wickes—The Forsyth Wickes Collection
Accession Number65.1886
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
DescriptionFlattened pear-shaped bottle is fluted on the two narrow sides and is surmounted by a silver-gilt collar, stopper, and connecting chain. Four sides of the bottle decorated with figural scenes, birds and flowers in raised gold foil and green and pale red enamel. On larger side, motif may depict St. John the Baptist, on other side, a kneeling figure.
Marks
Porcelain: none. Silver: a shell, Paris disharge mark for small work , 1756-62
ProvenanceBy 1911, Comte X. de Chavagnac, Paris; June 19-21, 1911, sold by Comte X. at Hotel Drouot, Paris, no. 79, and bought by Samson [see note 1]. By 1948, with Mrs. H. Dupuy, New York; April 2-3, 1948, sold by Mrs. H. Dupuy at Parke Bernet, New York, lot 238 and bought by Forsyth Wickes (b.1876-d.1964), New York and Newport, RI; 1965, bequest of Forsyth Wickes to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 24, 1965)
NOTES:
[1] According to Jeffrey H. Munger, in "The Forsyth Wickes Collection" (1992, p. 263), Samson is listed as the buyer of no. 79 in a handwritten notation in a copy of the Chavagnac sale catalogue now in the Dept. of Medieval and Later Antiquities, British Museum.
NOTES:
[1] According to Jeffrey H. Munger, in "The Forsyth Wickes Collection" (1992, p. 263), Samson is listed as the buyer of no. 79 in a handwritten notation in a copy of the Chavagnac sale catalogue now in the Dept. of Medieval and Later Antiquities, British Museum.