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Kelsterbach Scent Bottle
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Dates
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1765
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Medium
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Porcelain
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Origin
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Germany
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Description
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An extremely rare Kelsterbach scent bottle of a gentleman riding a goat, modelled by Carl Vogelmann (Active 1764-66). The trunk of the tree is embossed with flowers, as is the stopper. The features of the man are finely modelled, and the mouth is painted a bright red, all typical features of Vogelmann’s modelling.
8.5cm High
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Condition
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Old replacement stopper, with metal and cork fitments.
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Literature
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Das Kelsterbacher Porzellan, Kurt Röder, pl.XXIm, no, 112.
Kelsterbacher Porzellan, Großherzoglich-Hessische Porzellansammlung Darmstadt. Alexa-Beatrice Christ, p.67, pl 95.
Perfume and Pomander Scent and Scent bottles through the ages. by Edmund Launert.
P158, no 220. (Blohm collection, lot 557)
The Otto and Magdolena Blohm Collection, Sotheby’s 1961, lot 557
Collections:
The Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Canada, (G83.1.1055.1-2.)
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