Shepherdess – (Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory) Previous Next


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Date: 1760

Size: 7 x 3 cm

Museum: Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art (Toronto, Canada)

Technique: Porcelain

A Chelsea scent bottle modelled with a shepherdess wearing a flowered dress with blue and green sleeves. She is seated before a pedestal on which rests a gourd-shaped vase, with applied flowers. She holds a lamb with its forelegs resting on her knee, with another seated beside her. The hollow base is gilt with two doves in flight with a green dentil border, and gilt metal mounts and a squirrel stopper.

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