Lot 245

PRINCE HENRY BENEDICT, CARDINAL DUKE OF YORK’S FRENCH GOLD-MOUNTED GLASS SCENT FLASK
CIRCA 1750


Scottish Works of Art & Whisky
Auction: Lots 1 - 412 | 20 August 2024 at 10am
Description
The panelled glass body of flattened pear-shape, scalloped gold rim mount with moulded border, the detachable stopper with openwork scroll and baluster finial on suspension chain, with original red velvet case
Dimensions
12.1cm high
Provenance
Provenance:
Henry Benedict, Cardinal York
The Malatesta family, Rome
Purchased by Blaney Townley Balfour, circa 1842
By Family descent until circa 1985
Private Collection
The Jacobites & their Adversaries, Christies, 12 June 1996, lot 159
Exhibited:
The Monarchs of England, New Gallery, London, January 1902
Literature:
Papers of Devotion of James II, Oxford University Press, 1925
Several Jacobite relics from the Blaney Townley Balfour Collection were exhibited in 1902. The present scent bottle and also a seal of Cardinal York plus Stewart portraits including one of Cardinal York and another of his elder brother Prince Charles Edward Stuart

