A PAIR OF FRENCH POLYCHROME-PAINTED PORCELAIN FIGURAL SCENT BOTTLES IN THE FORM OF A SULTAN AND SULTANA
Attributable to Jacob Petit, France, mid-19th century

Modelled as a standing Ottoman Sultan and Sultana, both wearing gilt-embroidered flowered robes, colourfully and sumptuously dressed, the top of their turbans with a hole once filled by a stopper now missing, a bulbous vase at their feet to be used as inkwell, the squared bases in the shape of embroidered cushions, the base unmarked, each 34.5cm high.

For similar examples successfully sold in the London auction market in recent times, please see Sotheby's London, 27 October 2020, lot 509; and these Rooms, 30 October 2019, lot 81.