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Scent bottle

Meissen Manufactory (Germany)

Porcelain: 1725–50?; Mounts: 1756–62

Medium/TechniqueHard-paste porcelain decorated in gold foil and red and green enamel; silver-gilt mounts

Dimensions10.9 x 4.5 x 2.1 cm (4 5/16 x 1 3/4 x 13/16 in.)

Credit LineBequest of Forsyth Wickes—The Forsyth Wickes Collection

Accession number65.1886

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ClassificationsCeramics

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ProvenanceBy 1911, Comte X. de Chavagnac, Paris; June 19-21, 1911, sold by Comte X. at Hotel Drouot, Paris, no. 79, and bought by Samson [see note 1]. By 1948, with Mrs. H. Dupuy, New York; April 2-3, 1948, sold by Mrs. H. Dupuy at Parke Bernet, New York, lot 238 and bought by Forsyth Wickes (b.1876-d.1964), New York and Newport, RI; 1965, bequest of Forsyth Wickes to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 24, 1965)

NOTES:
[1] According to Jeffrey H. Munger, in "The Forsyth Wickes Collection" (1992, p. 263), Samson is listed as the buyer of no. 79 in a handwritten notation in a copy of the Chavagnac sale catalogue now in the Dept. of Medieval and Later Antiquities, British Museum.