Lot 10: A very rare Battersea enamel bottle ticket, circa 1753-56

Engraved by Simon Francis Ravenet after a design by James Gwin, printed in puce and lightly overpainted in colours with Cupid holding a bow and grappling with a satyr, a traveller walking in the distance, titled 'RANCIE', 7.4cm wide (fine cracks, minute rim chips)

There appear to be seventeen different designs and around forty-two different titles found on Battersea wine tickets, all engraved by Ravenet after designs by James Gwin. The lots offered at the Battersea bankruptcy sale in 1756 included 'Bottle tickets with chains for all sorts of liquor, and of different subjects...'. Another example of the Rancie label is illustrated in ECC Trans, Vol 6, Part I, A Miscellany of Pieces, plate 31(a) and another by Bernard Watney, English Enamels in the 18th Century, Antiques International, 1966. Only a few examples are recorded