23rd Apr, 2022 9:30 GMT/BST

Jewellery, Watches & Silver

 
  Lot 2056
 

2056

A Victorian Silver-Mounted Porcelain Scent-Bottle
The Silver Cap by Sampson Mordan, London, 1885, The Porcelain by James Macintyre and Company, Burslem, Design Registration Number Rd20772

the porcelain body formed as a bird's egg, overall painted a dark green, with plain silver cap; TOGETHER WITH: a similar example with a pale yellow background and painted with orangy-brown spots, broken, with plain silver cap

38mm high and smaller

Sold for £160
Estimated at £100 - £150


 

The silver marked on cap of each. The marks are generally clear. Lacking duty mark. The porcelain with design registration number. The dark green example with a couple of scratches to the glaze. The other example has been damaged at the seam on the shoulder.

 


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Auction: Jewellery, Watches & Silver, 23rd Apr, 2022

Tennants’ Jewellery, Watches & Silver Sales bring together a wide a range of affordable period and modern jewellery, vintage and collectable watches, and silver from the 18th to 21st century.

 

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