LOT 252 A Battersea enamel box, circa 1751-53
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A Battersea enamel box, circa 1751-53A Battersea enamel box, circa 1751-53Of rectangular form with gilt metal mounts, the hinged cover printed in brown on the exterior with 'Paris presenting an apple to Hibernia', the interior with a portrait of Maria Gunning, the base with a lion and cherubs, panels of children representing the arts to the sides, engraved by Ravenet, 6.7cm wideProvenanceWith Simon Spero, June 1981E and J Handley Collection, illustrated 18th Century English Transfer-Printed Porcelain and Enamels (1991), p.260Simon Spero exhibition, 2000, no.44Bunny and Paul Davies CollectionThe scene on the exterior of the cover is a reference to the famous Irish beauty, Maria Gunning, who arrived in England with her younger sister in 1750. Her portrait on the interior shows her fashionably dressed in Turkish style taken from a mezzotint by R Houston after Liotard. See Egan Mew, Battersea Enamels (1926), fig.12. She later became Countess of Coventry and her sister Duchess of Hamilton.
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