An Austrian gold-mounted enamelled scent bottle, c.1770/80, the enamel signed Schindler Wien for Philipp Ernst Schindler II (1723-1793), the front and back painted en grisaille on pink ground with peasant families at domestic pastimes in the manner of Greuze, the sides and cover with chased decoration, the stopper with loop handle, 8.3cm highNote: Philipp Ernst Schindler II, the son of a porcelain painter of the same name at Meissen, worked himself at Meissen about 1740-1750. In 1750, he moved to Vienna and became director of painting at the Imperial porcelain factory in 1777. Schindler appears to have been allowed to work as an enameller for gold boxes from the 1760s. C. Truman (The Gilbert Collection of Gold Boxes, Los Angeles, 1991, no. 136, p. 394) points out that 'Schindler's later style turned towards grisaille painting of putti and children after François Boucher [...]'. Please refer to department for condition report