Fine Silver & Objects of Vertu - 25th April 2018

Lot 550

A rare mid 18th century Battersea enamel wine label

Estimate £800 - £1,200 | Hammer £800

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Description

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.