A Pair of Paris Porcelain Scent Bottles in the Form of a Sultan & Sultana

19th century, both modeled standing and painted in polychrome with gilt details, with original stoppers, unmarked.

Sultana 12.5 in.; Sultan 12.25 in.

From The Collection of the Late Stuart Walston and Doris Schaum Walston of Wilson, North Carolina

Although unmarked, these bottles are in the style of Jacob Petit, a Paris manufacturer known for his high quality and large bottles of Turkish and Ottoman figures.

Stopper of sultan with minor flake; sultana's stopper with stable drying crack and minor flakes; stable old hairline to base of sultan's robe along juncture with integral plinth; some scratching to polychrome of sultan's robe at verso; the sultana with original drying crack to back of one arm and flake to top of turban; both with minor rubbing to gilt decoration.

$800 - 1,200