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Lot 14: A rare Battersea enamel bottle ticket, circa 1753-56

Est: £3,500 GBP - £4,500 GBPSold:
BonhamsLondon, United KingdomOctober 19, 2011

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Description

Engraved by Simon Francis Ravenet after a design by James Gwin, printed in puce and lightly overpainted in colours with two scantily clad putti beside a tree trunk, titled 'RHENISH', 7cm wide (a few fine scratches only)

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Notes


Another example is illustrated by Egan Mew, Battersea Enamels (1926), fig 22(2) and was sold in these rooms on 8 June 2005, lot 73. The same design is also used for LUNEL and MALVOISIE tickets

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