The collection of cut-glass decanters and scent bottles featuring etched profile busts of mythological figures, past statesmen and presidents, of varying shapes and sizes, including:

An Apsley Pellatt decanter and stopper set with a sulphide of Cupid, 9 in. (22.7 cm.) high

Two Apsley Pellatt bottles and stoppers set with kneeling angels, 7¹⁄₈ in. (18 cm.) high

Two Apsley Pellatt upright mantle ornaments set with portraits of Milton & Shakespeare, 5 in. (12.6 cm.) high

Two silver-mounted flasks, each set with the muse Melpomene or Terpsichore, the later with interior glass stopper and faintly incised with the initials F.A., 6 in. (15.2 cm.) long, the slightly larger

A silver-mounted Aplsey Pellatt flask with interior stopper, set with a coat-of-arms, 5¹⁄₈ in. (13 cm.) high

An Apsley Pellatt bottle and a stopper set with a female figure holding a brazier, probably Hygeia, 6¹⁄₄ in. (15.8 cm.) high

Seven portrait bottles and stoppers, including Baccarat examples with portraits of Napoleon and Eugène de Beauharnais, and Apsley Pellat examples with portraits of George III, William Pitt, Adam Viscount Duncan, an unidentified gentleman and George Washington, the Washington example with a sulphide set in the stopper as well, 6 in. (15.1 cm.) high, the tallest

A small silver-mounted Baccarat scent-bottle with interior stopper, set with a portrait of Voltaire, 3¹⁄₈ in. (7.8 cm.) high

Together with two silver-mounted Baccarat cut-glass scent bottles and stoppers with central enameled gold foil inclusions of either a carnation or the Legion of Honor, 3³⁄₈ in. (8.5 cm.) long, the slightly larger
9¹⁄₄ in. (23.5 cm.) high, the tallest

The Paul Jokelson Collection.
Acquired from Mallet & Son, London, 16 July 1992.

P. Dunlop, The Jokelson Collection of Antique Cameo Incrustation, Phoenix, 1991, pp. 34-5, no. 61 (the Legion of Honor scent bottle); p. 50, no. 121 (Voltaire); p. 51, no. 130 (Eugène de Beauharnais); p. 57, no. 162 (Napoleon); p. 85, no. 290 (Hygeia); p. 92, nos. 307 and 308 (Shakespeare & Milton); pp. 98-9, nos. 338, 339 and 341 (Adam Viscount Duncan, Washington & George III); p. 100, no. 344 (the small circular example with small portrait of a man); p. 101, nos. 347, 348, 350 and 351 (Cupid, Melpomene & angels); p. 102, nos. 353 and 354 (Terpischore & William Pitt); and pp. 102-3, no. 355 (coat-of-arms).
P. Jokelson, Sulphides, the Art of Cameo Incrustation, New York, 1968, p. 78, no. 66 (Eugène de Beauharnais).

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The portraits of Eugène de Beauharnais and Milton are after medals by Franz Xaver Losch and John Sigismund Tanner, respectively. See Dunlop, op. cit., p. 51, no. 130 and p. 92, no. 309.

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Generally in good order; typical scattered chips and nicks througout; some light scratches; one of the pair of bottles with kneeling angels with a crack to its everted rim, the other with a large rim chip. Typical light tarnishing to the silver. A few of the stoppers possibly matched. Adam Viscount Duncan with an interior flaw to his eyebrow in the making.

The collection of cut-glass decanters and scent bottles featuring etched profile busts of mythological figures, past statesmen and presidents, of varying shapes and sizes, including:

An Apsley Pellatt decanter and dropper set with a sulphide of Cupid, 9 in. (22.7 cm.) high-- Jokelson Collection no. 347

Two Apsley Pellatt bottles and stoppers set with kneeling angels, 7¹⁄₈ in. (18 cm.) high-- Jokelson Collection nos. 348 and 351

Two Apsley Pellatt upright mantle ornements set with portraits of Milton & Shakespeare, 5 in. (12.6 cm.) high-- -- Jokelson Collection nos. 307 and 309

Two silver-mounted flasks, each set with the muse Melpomene or Terpsichore, the later with interior glass stopper and fainly incised with the initials F.A., 6 in. (15.2 cm.) long, the slightly larger-- Jokelson Collection nos. 350 and 353

An Aplsey Pellatt silver-mounted flask with interior stopper, set with a coat-of-arms, 5¹⁄₈ in. (13 cm.) high-- -- Jokelson Collection no. 355

An Apsley Pellatt bottle and a stopper set with a female figure holding a brazier, probably Hygeia, 6¹⁄₄ in. (15.8 cm.) high-- Jokelson Colleciton no. 290

Seven portrait bottles and stoppers, including Baccarat examples with portraits of Napoleon and Eugène de Beauharnais, and Apsley Pellat examples with portraits of George III, William Pitt, Adam Viscount Duncan, an unidentified gentleman and George Washington, the Washington example with a sulphide set in the stopper as well, 6 in. (15.1 cm.) high, the tallest-- Jokelson Collection nos. 130, 162, 338, 339, 341, 354 (the portrait of what looks like George III lacking a Jokelson Collection sticker).

A small silver-mounted Baccarat scent-bottle with interior stopper, set with a portrait of Voltaire, 3¹⁄₈ in. (7.8 cm.) high

Together with two silver-mounted Baccarat cut-glass scent bottles and stoppers with central enameled gold foil inclusions of either a carnation or with the Legion of Honor, 3³⁄₈ in. (8.5 cm.) long, the slightly larger-- Jokelson Collection no. 246 (the carnation)

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