Code: 10143
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James Neal & Co gold mounted c.18 oval jasperware scent bottle solid blue with white low relief decoration and screw-on gold lid tooled with fan-shaped decoration. The bottle decorated with interlacing detailing with scenes above arabesques on each side.One side depicts a sacrifice with two women and a putto wesring a mask, The putto is a prankster called a larvate, who wore a mask, usually of Silenus a companion of Bacchus. The mask was intended to scare and arouse tension without any underlying causes. the other side depicts Coriulanus. When you remove the stopper, you can see some damage to the neck of the bottle under the gold band.
James Neale & Co was an 18th-century English pottery company that produced high-quality jasperware which rivaled that of Josiah Wedgwood. Their jasperware is a fine-grained, unglazed stoneware with a matte, impervious surface sheen.
