Gilt silver cylinder scent bottle, engraved in the manner of Kate Greenaway, with a central cartouche figuring a little girl perched on a fence playing a trumpet. The piece is further embellished with branches of flowering apple trees. Hinged cap and inner cristal stopper. Fully hallmarked for London, 1882, SM marker for Sampson Mordan.

Literature: Kate Greenaway was a prolific illustrator of childrens books, born in Hoxton in 1846, the daughter of a draughtsman and engraver, John Greenaway. She popularised a style of drawing that is instantly recognisable as hers – delicate watercolours of children with animals and birds in the English countryside. Between 1882 – 1884 Greenaway pictures appeared on Mordan scent bottles almost always with children in the foreground and a house or church in the background.