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By the mid-eighteenth century, women’s dressing tables displayed the height of exotic luxury in the rococo taste. With its fine draperies and expensive accoutrements, the dressing table rivaled the state bed and sideboard as a stage for dazzling extravagance.
Created in the late-eighteenth century, this scent-bottle and stopper was included as part of a lavish porcelain and gilded silver dressing box, or toilette set, (see 1995.22.1.A-I) designed by Charles Gouyn and made by St. James's Factory in London, England. Many toilette sets included a variety of objects such as scent-bottles, snuffboxes, sewing materials, brushes and combs, jewelry, various containers for cosmetics and powders, and writing accessories.
This scent-bottle and stopper is gold-mounted and modeled as Cupid standing upright with crossed legs beside a climbing pink rose bush, set atop an oval green mound base that is concave underneath. The stopper is formed from three porcelain roses flanked by three porcelain leaves and attached delicately with a miniature gold chain and gold fixtures. The St. James's Factory was recognized specifically for decorative galanterie (decorative porcelain trinkets) including scent bottles such as this piece which was designed for holding perfume
Drawn from:
- Douglas Hawes, "Dressing casket with accessorie" in Dallas Museum of Art: A Guide to the Collection, ed. Charles Venable (New Haven, NJ: Yale University Press, 1997), 204.
- Bonnie Pitman, ed. "Dressing casket with accessories" in Dallas Museum of Art: A Guide to the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012), 162.
- Kevin W. Tucker, Label Copy, Margot B. Perot Curator of Decorative Arts and Design, August 2004
- "Important Silver and Objects of Vertu including Works of Art from Houghton" in Christie's Catalogue (London: December 8, 1994), 12.
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By the mid-eighteenth century, women’s dressing tables displayed the height of exotic luxury in the rococo taste. With its fine draperies and expensive accoutrements, the dressing table rivaled the state bed and sideboard as a stage for dazzling extravagance.
Created in the late-eighteenth century, this scent-bottle and stopper was included as part of a lavish porcelain and gilded silver dressing box, or toilette set, (see 1995.22.1.A-I) designed by Charles Gouyn and made by St. James's Factory in London, England. Many toilette sets included a variety of objects such as scent-bottles, snuffboxes, sewing materials, brushes and combs, jewelry, various containers for cosmetics and powders, and writing accessories.
This scent-bottle and stopper is gold-mounted and modeled as Cupid standing upright with crossed legs beside a climbing pink rose bush, set atop an oval green mound base that is concave underneath. The stopper is formed from three porcelain roses flanked by three porcelain leaves and attached delicately with a miniature gold chain and gold fixtures. The St. James's Factory was recognized specifically for decorative galanterie (decorative porcelain trinkets) including scent bottles such as this piece which was designed for holding perfume
Drawn from:
- Douglas Hawes, "Dressing casket with accessorie" in Dallas Museum of Art: A Guide to the Collection, ed. Charles Venable (New Haven, NJ: Yale University Press, 1997), 204.
- Bonnie Pitman, ed. "Dressing casket with accessories" in Dallas Museum of Art: A Guide to the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012), 162.
- Kevin W. Tucker, Label Copy, Margot B. Perot Curator of Decorative Arts and Design, August 2004
- "Important Silver and Objects of Vertu including Works of Art from Houghton" in Christie's Catalogue (London: December 8, 1994), 12.
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