Lot 136
 

A PAIR OF 19TH CENTURY FRENCH 'PORCELAIN DE PARIS' FIGURAL PERFUME BOTTLES OF A SULTAN AND SULTANA, FOR THE TURKISH MARKET each modelled in the form of a standing figure, a richly attired Sultan and Sultana with cylindrical apertures through turbans with stopper, each supported on a square base with with gilt decoration and a fluted water-basin at their feet, 34cm high (2) Auction Comparables; Very similar figures have sold at Sotheby's, London, in the following sales: 24 October 2018, lot 236, sold £9375 26 April 2017 lot 218 sold £10,000 6 October 2010 lot 366, sold £8750. Related Literature: H. Williams, Turquerie: An Eighteenth-Century European Fantasy, London, 2014, pp.210-11 on the manufacture and popularity of these figures.
Estimated at £4,000 - £6,000

 

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