A rare early Chelsea or St James's (Charles Gouyn) combined scent bottle and needle case c.1749-55, modelled as a female term holding a basket of fruit and wearing a yellow robe edged in blue and pink, the flared square lower section painted with small flower sprigs on a white ground, hinging at the waist for the needle case, her head forming the stopper of the scent bottle, with gilt metal mounts, 10.6cm.