Title
Scent bottle in the form of Cupid holding the globe
circa 1751-circa 1759
Artist
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Details
- Date
- circa 1751-circa 1759
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- porcelain
- Dimensions
- 8.2 x 3.2 x 3.8 cm
- Credit
- On loan from Kenneth Reed
- Location
- South Building, ground level, Grand Courts
- Accession number
- L2012.120
- Copyright
- Artist information
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St James's
Works in the collection
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About
Charles Gouyn’s factory appears to have produced scent bottles in two distinct grades, the grander examples having gold mounts. This is one of the factory’s more modest productions presumably designed to attract a wider market. There are examples of this shape bearing an inscription in French – Je soutiens le monde – implying that Cupid, the god of love, holds the whole world in his hands.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Grand Courts collection rehang, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Nov 2021–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Richard Beresford, Eighteenth - Century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed collection, Sydney, 2012, 64, 65 (colour illus.). cat.no. 77
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