THREE STAFFORDSHIRE ENAMEL BOXES AND TWO ENAMEL SCENT BOTTLES

Lot 482
15.06.2021 11:00UTC +00:00
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£ 1 250
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Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 565575
Lot 482 | THREE STAFFORDSHIRE ENAMEL BOXES AND TWO ENAMEL SCENT BOTTLES
Estimate value
£ 1 500 – 2 500
Comprising: a white-ground scent bottle with gilt highlights, a courting couple to one side and a couple by a lake to another, bird stopper, with blue-bordered label to underside 'No 242', Staffordshire, second half 18th century; a turquoise-ground scent bottle with reserves of flowers to the flat sides, bird stopper, marked Samson, late 19th century; a pink-ground rectangular snuff box, the lid with ribbon inscription 'L'AMOUR & LA GLOIRE', the sides with figures in landscapes, gilt-metal mounts; a rectangular snuffbox with flowers on a white ground with blue partitions, 19th century; and a Bilston oval patchbox, the lid decorated with a naval battle and with inscription 'The Glorious Victory of Earl HOWE / 1st June 1794', commemorating the Glorious First of June or the Fourth Battle of Ushant, the victory over the French fleet in the French Revolutionary wars, a mirror to the inside of the lid
The scent bottles: 3⅝ in. (9 cm.) high
The pink box: 11/2 in. (4 cm.) high; 13/4 in. (4.5 cm.) wide; 11/4 in. (3 cm.) deep
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