A Charles Gouyn (St James's Factory) scent bottle and stopper

A Charles Gouyn (St James's Factory) scent bottle and stopper, in the form of a young woman and Cupid, flanking a clock face supported on a marbled column, and surrounded by pink flower heads and green leaves, a Dalmatian seated at the base, on 'shagreen' decorated square base, picked out in puce and inscribed in black 'L'Heure Du Berger Fidelle', 3 1/8" high, circa 1755, no mark

See Bryant, The Chelsea Porcelain Toys, Colour Plate 19, number 2, for a similar scent bottle and stopper in the Lady Charlotte Schreiber Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum. Another is in the Franks Collection, British Museum 

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