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Reference: S11529
Period: Victorian
Year: 1883
Silversmith: Sampson Mordan & Co
Place: London
Price: $ 480.00
Weight: 29 including glass grams
Dimensions: 5.5 cm
Condition: Good, lid closes well but slight wobble on hinge. Glass bottle loose and slides out, so may be a later replacement. Small chip to glass stopper. Small dents to base and very small dent to lid.
Description: A Sampson Mordan silver scent bottle, beautifully engraved with Kate Greenaway images, a girl pulling a smaller girl in a wheeled cart, and another capped girl walking towards a gate, all in front of a brick wall, with a church with spire in the background. The bottle is clearly hallmarked on both the base and the lid. The glass bottle inside is loose and can be removed, it fits exactly into the hole, so we are not sure if it is original or a later replacement. Kate Greenaway was a Victorian artist and writer, her 1879 book "Under the Window" a collection of simple, perfectly idyllic verses about children, was a bestseller. "Kate Greenaway" children, all of them girls and boys too young to be put in trousers, were dressed in her own versions of late 18th century and Regency fashions: smock-frocks and skeleton suits for boys, high-waisted pinafores and dresses with mobcaps and straw bonnets for girls - source Wikipedia. Sampson Mordan became famous for producing high quality, innovative novelty items, many of which are highly collectable today. The firm worked between 1823 and 1941. The motto of the Sampson Mordan company was "Quality lives when price is forgotten" - Sampson Mordan & Co booklet, 1986.
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