Anna Burnside
Head of Sale
Lot 267
A rare Chelsea Aesop's Fable scent bottle and stopper, circa 1760
11 June 2025, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge£1,500 - £2,000
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Fergus Gambon
Director
A rare Chelsea Aesop's Fable scent bottle and stopper, circa 1760
Modelled with a fox and stork climbing around a pear-shaped bottle, their fur and feathers finely painted, standing on a pedestal base, the rococo scrolls picked out in gilding and puce, the concave underside decorated with a floral bouquet, the stopper formed as a small posy and fitted with a gold mount and secured by a small chain, 10.2cm high
Footnotes
A similar example is illustrated in G.E. Bryant, The Chelsea Porcelain Toys (1925), pl.8, no.4. Yvonne Hackenbroch notes that the source print for this model was taken from Francis Barlow's 1665 edition of Aesop's Fables, specifically Fable LXXXV, 'The Fox and the Stork'. See Yvonne Hackenbroch, Catalogue of the Irwin Untermyer Collection (1957), fig.87, pl.63.