Details
Upright baluster shaped blue glass bottle, overlaid with pierced gold cagework embossed with birds resting on scrolls held by flowers garlands, the stopper embossed with scrolls and flowers and with chain attachment
278 in. (72 mm.) high
Provenance
Albert Marber (1900-1960), then by descent.
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Alexander James Strachan supplied gold boxes to the royal goldsmiths Rundell, Bridge & Rundell and Wakelin & Garrard. He was referred to as the 'Paul Storr of gold boxes' by Arthur Grimwade (London Goldsmiths, 1697-1837: Their Marks and Lives, London, 1976, pp. 672-73). A similar scent bottle with enamelled elements was sold in the Iberian Collection, Part I; Christie's London, 8 December 2011, lot 5.

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