Fretwork blue porcelain scent bottle with a spray of forget me nots and moulded Prince of Wales feathers

Blue porcelain scent bottle of tapering form with fretwork on the body and lattice moulding around opposing oval reserves. The front is painted with a spray of forget me nots, heightened in gilt while the back has moulded Prince of Wales feathers. White side panels. Matching round stopper in gilt porcelain. A drawing of a similar example in the Royal Worcester Museum is signed with the initials EAE, who might be Ernest A Evans, a modeler who worked for Royal Worcester from 1906 to 1915.
Period
Victorian

Country

UK, 1870 ca

Material

porcelain

Size

8 cm

COD.

1234

Labels

antique scent bottles

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