For sale is a very rare treat - a snuff box with a perfume bottle top and a seal as the foot. It was made by the famous Girl in a Swing factory at St James by the Huguenot Charles Gouyn who formerly was a founder along with Nicholas Sprimont of the famous Chelsea factory. St. James is famous for their toys - miniature items like snuff boxes, perfumes, seals, etc. and was around from about 1749-1759 so not long at all! This piece here combines them all which is very neat! The bottom part looks like a vase with hand painted flowers on both front and back and a ring handle on either side. This is the snuff box part. The top looks like the flowers in the vase. 3D miniature porcelain flowers and their leaves modeled and hand painted to perfection. This is the perfume part. The foot is the seal. It is either made of Agate or Carnelian and has a head of a Greek or Phoenecian carved into it or something like that. The mounts are gold. The inside of the lid is hand painted with flowers as well and there is a tiny flower on the bottom inside and a leaf on the side inside likely to hide an imperfection. The foot where the gold mounts for the seal are has flowers painted on it as well but these are hidden by the mounts mostly. Not sure if the seal was original to it or added by the original owner but it is certainly from that period as well! The piece is in amazing condition - there are very few chips at all to the flowers the biggest being to the large yellow one up front and there are a few nibbles to leaves and a a few small ones missing plus 3 are reglued. None of this is obvious on display at all and you need to look closely to see it after searching for a while :) The original lid got lost and I had a perfect replacement added to it. The seal on the bottom has a crack from top to bottom and from that crack to the right side is another shorter crack but it's tight and won't go anywhere! The piece is 3.375 inches tall, 1.75 inches wide and 1.375 inches deep. Tabatiere Patch Pill English England 18th century Flakon flacon Perfuemflasche Deckeldose Siegel

If you like my goodies have a look at my other auctions for a lot more top maker pieces like Worcester , Derby and so on. Returns accepted if item is not as described. More items can be found when you click on my user name. Photos are part of the description - if you need others just let me know exactly what you are looking for and I'll take care of it speedily! I always provide a tracking number so keep an eye on that since postal services aren't perfect. Please do not send me questions on items other than my own! Фарфор 磁器 porcelaine porcellana

For sale is a very rare treat - a snuff box with a perfume bottle top and a seal as the foot. It was made by the famous Girl in a Swing factory at St James by the Huguenot Charles Gouyn who formerly was a founder along with Nicholas Sprimont of the famous Chelsea factory. St. James is famous for their toys - miniature items like snuff boxes, perfumes, seals, etc. and was around from about 1749-1759 so not long at all! This piece here combines them all which is very neat! The bottom part looks like a vase with hand painted flowers on both front and back and a ring handle on either side. This is the snuff box part. The top looks like the flowers in the vase. 3D miniature porcelain flowers and their leaves modeled and hand painted to perfection. This is the perfume part. The foot is the seal.