Fine Silver & Objects of Vertu - 25 Apr 2018
A rare mid 18th century Battersea enamel wine label
A rare mid 18th century Battersea enamel wine label,
circa 1755,
escutcheon form, with a wrestling cupid and satyr in a landscape, titled 'RANCIE', some chips, length 7.1cm.
Provenance: Sotheby's, 6 November 1997, lot 317 part.
For a similar label see: Salter, J., Wine Labels, 1730-2003, Antique Collector's Club in association with the Wine Label Circle, 2004, page 295, fig. 997.