20th Oct, 2023 9:30 GMT/BST

Antiques & Interiors

 
  Lot 97
 

97

Four English-Mounted Ceramic Scent-Bottles and a French Silver-Mounted Scent-Bottle, the bodies each variously painted with flowers, the covers plain, chased with foliage or fluted (5)

Sold for £320
Estimated at £150 - £250


 

Bottle 1 - paint scratches, with a ceramic stopper probably a replacement, silver with a few dents and hinged cap
Bottle 2 - Screw cap, silver in good order with small dent to the top, no stopper, one or two paint scratches to the porcelain
Bottle 3 - Hinged cover, silver in good order, complete with glass stopper also in good order, porcelain with rubbing and remnance of adesive labels
Bottle 4 - Screw cap, no stopper, silver with two or three dents, porcelain in good order,
Bottle 5 screw cap, silver with dents, silver mount has been reattached to the porcelain body and the body with rubbing a paint scratches.

 


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Auction: Antiques & Interiors, 20th Oct, 2023

Part I of the Antiques and Interiors Sale on 20th October will begin at 9:30am with a specialist section of Silver. This will be followed by the usual run of Ceramics and Glass, including Chinese and Japanese porcelain ginger jars, vases, and chargers; Staffordshire Pottery zebras, Herend Porcelain birds and paperweights by St. Louis and Baccarat, to name just a few highlights. Also included will be a large section of affordable watches and jewellery from mourning brooches and dress rings to gold bracelets and pendants.

Part II, which also begins at 9:30am with lot 1000, will comprise paintings, rugs, furniture and a large quantity of books from the libraries of  Dr John Senior and of York historian Hugh Murray including local history, botany, geology and palaeontology.

The sale will also include selected items sold on behalf of the Terry Family of York (Terry’s Chocolates), these items are denoted throughout the catalogue with a ~ 

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Tuesday 17 October - Wednesday 18 October 10am-4pm, Thursday 19 October 10am-5pm and morning of sale from 7.30am

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