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Look what Martin Fennelly Antiques has put up for sale on-line: <br/><br/> <a href='http://www.fennelly.net/Item.aspx?id=24690'>707 Sold Antique Pair French Porcelain Scent Perfume Bottles Jacob Petit Gilt</a><br/><br/><img src='https://file.4pm.ie/943/78e8b78a.jpg.152x137.png' alt='707 Sold Antique Pair French Porcelain Scent Perfume Bottles Jacob Petit Gilt'/><br/><p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Stunning Pair of French Ornate Hand Painted Ladies Scent Bottles of exceptional quality made by renowned French porcelain maker Jacob Petit. Last quarter of the Nineteenth Century, possibly earlier.</strong>&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Each central reserve exquisitely&nbsp;hand&nbsp;painted depicting exotic&nbsp;colorful&nbsp;birds in branches on landscape background. The other sides painted with&nbsp;summer&nbsp;flowers and Old Roses, each ending on lavish Gilt bases.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Height</strong>: (entire overall as shown in image one an impressive) 9&rdquo; (22.5cm).&nbsp;<strong>Width:</strong>&nbsp;(at widest areas) 3" (7.5cm).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Condition:</strong>&nbsp;Good condition with no losses to porcelain, light wear to gilding at high points. &nbsp;These pieces are typically unmarked. Back and front views are similar, original firm fitting stoppers.&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Item Sold</strong></p> <p><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Jacob Petit Porcelain:</strong>&nbsp;French hard-paste porcelain produced by Jacob Petit (b. 1796). Petit worked at the porcelain factory at&nbsp;<strong>S&egrave;vres</strong>&nbsp;as a painter. With his brother&nbsp;Mardoch&eacute;e&nbsp;he bought a porcelain factory in Fontainebleau in 1830, finally settling in Paris in 1863. The wares he made were of a purely ornamental character; e.g., vases, scent bottles, statuettes, clocks. The high-quality porcelain may have been fired in Limoges. The usual&nbsp;colours&nbsp;are pale pink, light green, mauve, black, and gold. The shapes are idiosyncratic interpretations of the 18th-century rocaille style typical of the popular preference for the neo-Rococo during Louis-Philippe&rsquo;s reign (1830&ndash;48).&nbsp;</p>