A good St James's (Charles Gouyn scent bottle, circa 1751-59Finely modelled and naturalistically coloured as a swan, its head forming the stopper, the chased gold mount and chain serving as a collar around the bird's slender neck, the underside of the domed foot enamelled with a delicate garland of roses, with a stiff leaf gold mount, 6cm highFootnotesKate Foster illustrates a very similar scent bottle, including it in the 'Second Category', of 'toys' attributed to Charles Gouyn See Chelsea Scent Bottles - 'Girl in a Swing' and another group, ECC Trans, Vol.6, Pt.3 (1967), pl.214a, no.33. The mounts on the present lot are finer than others in this category and are gold, not gilt metal. The previous suggestion that both categories are not products of the same factory has largely been refuted. Errol Manners points to the example of the large casket now in the Dallas Museum of Art, which combines elements of both groups. Errol Manners, A Documentary 'Girl-in-a-Swing' Seal and other considerations on the porcelain of Charles Gouyn's factory, ECC Trans, Vol.18, Pt.3 (2004), p.402. A similar swan scent bottle is in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, catalogued as Chelsea (inv. no.64.101.548a,b). It is illustrated alongside another related example by Yvonne Hackenbroch, Chelsea and Other English Porcelain, Pottery and Enamel in The Irwin Untermyer Collection (1957), pl.63, fig.100.
A good St James's (Charles Gouyn scent bottle, circa 1751-59Finely modelled and naturalistically coloured as a swan, its head forming the stopper, the chased gold mount and chain serving as a collar around the bird's slender neck, the underside of the domed foot enamelled with a delicate garland of roses, with a stiff leaf gold mount, 6cm highFootnotesKate Foster illustrates a very similar scent bottle, including it in the 'Second Category', of 'toys' attributed to Charles Gouyn See Chelsea Scent Bottles - 'Girl in a Swing' and another group, ECC Trans, Vol.6, Pt.3 (1967), pl.214a, no.33. The mounts on the present lot are finer than others in this category and are gold, not gilt metal. The previous suggestion that both categories are not products of the same factory has largely been refuted. Errol Manners points to the example of the large casket now in the Dallas Museum of Art, which combines elements of both groups. Errol Manners, A Documentary 'Girl-in-a-Swing' Seal and other considerations on the porcelain of Charles Gouyn's factory, ECC Trans, Vol.18, Pt.3 (2004), p.402. A similar swan scent bottle is in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, catalogued as Chelsea (inv. no.64.101.548a,b). It is illustrated alongside another related example by Yvonne Hackenbroch, Chelsea and Other English Porcelain, Pottery and Enamel in The Irwin Untermyer Collection (1957), pl.63, fig.100.
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