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8 - A CHELSEA BODKIN CASE, CIRCA 1765 / 70
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£700 - 1,000 (€830 - 1,200)Sale fees
A CHELSEA BODKIN CASE, CIRCA 1765 / 70 cylindrical, the top modelled as a bust of a lady with green and red sprigged head covering and a turquoise and puce shawl, the body with gilt linear scalework surrounding a Rococo cartouche with a basket of flowers and the motto above 'JE MATTACHE A / LA PLUS BELLE', with gold cased foliate rim mounts and gilt-metal interior lining, 13.5cm long Provenance: Property from a Private Collection, St John's Wood, London; Sotheby's, London, 14 December 1972, lot 47, where noted as 'From the Wallace Collection'. See another of the same pattern at the Musée Cognacq-Jay, Paris, Inv.No.J598, although described there as German hard paste porcelain.
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