Scent flask with Prince Charles Edward Stuart, Capodimonte Factory

An image of Scent Flask. Capodimonte Porcelain Factory. Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, painted overglaze in enamels with gold mounts. Stopper, attached by a chain, is engraved and decorated in enamels. Height 10.6cm, width 4.7cm, depth 2.5cm, circa 1752-1755, the mounts are circa 1755-1760. Decorated on one side with a portrait of Prince Charles Stuart, the Young pretender (1720-88), and on the other with the arms of Lady Mary Hervey (1700-68), widow of John, Lord Hervey of Ickworth. Capodimonte, with London mounts.

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Scent Flask. Capodimonte Porcelain Factory. Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, painted overglaze in enamels with gold mounts. Stopper, attached by a chain, is engraved and decorated in enamels. Height 10.6cm, width 4.7cm, depth 2.5cm, circa 1752-1755, the mounts are circa 1755-1760. Decorated on one side with a portrait of Prince Charles Stuart, the Young pretender (1720-88), and on the other with the arms of Lady Mary Hervey (1700-68), widow of John, Lord Hervey of Ickworth. Capodimonte, with London mounts.

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Accession Number: C.28 & A-2007
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Aperture: f/32.0
Camera: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 666 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.3 (Windows)
Filesize: 106.53kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 32/1
Captured: 2007:06:26 23:36:39

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