Jewellery, Watches and Objects of Vertu

A French late 19th century gold mounted pink and grey enamelled perfume bottle, the globular-shaped bottle decorated each side with individual scenes of young lovers within a rustic landscape, with hinged spherical cover, the gold mount of frilled design, and engraved with flowers and stars, stamped to the reverse with French eagle’s head guarantee fineness mark and partially struck lozenge maker’s mark, length 6.5cm. £700-£900

The compositions are after François Boucher’s Four Seasons, (Spring and Autumn), painted in 1755 for Madame to Pompadour, the originals now in the Frith Collection, New York. The paintings were reproduced as engravings by Jean Daullé (French 18th century engraver and print maker), the images in reverse.