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Description: | An ovoid shaped bottle with flattened sides and tapering neck with a silver mount and a screw top silver lid with a ring attached for hanging. Enamel on metal and painted in colours with two panels of a lady and gentleman in powdered wigs, the lady playing the mandolin and the man looking at a sheet of music and on the other side a similar lady and gentleman seated with the man's arm around the lady's shoulders and both holding the same wine glass. Both panels are within scroll borders of raised white enamel on a bright yellow ground decorated with flower sprays in raised white enamel.
Technique: enamelling
Technique: hand-painting
Material: enamel
Material: metal
Material: silver
scent bottle made in Germany, Europe, 1750-1770, (1981.370). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.21894 | Go to resource |
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