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