A PAIR OF FRENCH POLYCHROME-PAINTED PORCELAIN FIGURAL SCENT BOTTLES
Attributable to Jacob Petit, France, mid-19th century

Modelled as a standing woman, wearing a traditional Albanian dress with a pink corset and floral skirt, carrying a large water ewer, and a standing Greek or Dalmatian shepherd wearing a white robe enhanced with polychrome paisley leaves (boteh) designs, both figures wearing a similar floral scarf around their heads, the circular bases designed as brown soil ground with vegetation, the base unmarked, each 33.5cm high.