An English porcelain scent bottle, probably late 18th century, modelled in the Chelsea manner with

An English porcelain scent bottle, probably late 18th century, modelled in the Chelsea manner with two dolphins entwined around aquatic weed above a large scallop shell, with gilt metal mounts to the foot and neck, 9cm.

Provenance: from an English private collection, Sussex.

Cf. Metropolitan Museum, Accession Number 64.101.528a,b for the original Chelsea model from the Irwin Untermeyer bequest.