- Titles Scent Bottle (Descriptive)
- Artist Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory, England, Chelsea, operated 1744/45-about 1770@England
- Medium soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration and gilding and gold
- Dimensions 4 1/2 × 1 3/4 × 7/8 in. (11.4 × 4.4 × 2.2 cm)
- Credit Line Gift of the Starr and Wolfe Family, 2019.69
- Work Type bottle
- Classification Containers
- Signature Unsigned
- Marks None
- Inscription Around the stopper the words PÖEME DE L’AMOUR
- Provenance Chelsea porcelain manufactory, England, about 1755. Hanns and Elisabeth Weinberg / Antique Company of New York, New York, New York; sold Sotheby’s New York, November 10-11, 2006, lot 8; Bernard and Lydia Starr, Glen Head, New York; by descent to their children Vernon Starr, Atlanta, Georgia and Joanne Starr Wolfe, Harrington Park, New Jersey [see note 1]; by gift to the Birmingham Museum of Art
1. Offered for sale at Sotheby’s, New York, October 23, 2019 (Wedgwood & Beyond. English Ceramics from the Starr Collection), lot 19 (lot passed).