Details
The first modeled front and back as the head of a woman wearing two different masks, a bow about her neck, the stopper applied with flowers; the second as the head of a masked woman, one eye set with a ‘gem’, the gilt metal cover engraved with flowers
334 in. high, the scent bottle
234 in. high, the bonbonniere
Provenance
Thelma Crysler Foy; Parke Bernet Galleries, 15-16 May 1959, lot 124 (the scent bottle).
The Antique Porcelain Company, New York.
Anonymous sale; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 18 March 1967, lots 55 and 58.
Acquired by Annie Laurie Aitken (1900-1984) and Russell Barnett Aitken (1910-2002) from the above.
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Compare the Chelsea example formerly in the Untermyer collection, now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, object no. 64.101.633a, b.

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