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SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY, PROBABLY FRENCH
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AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED FLUORSPAR PERFUME BURNER
Second half 19th Century, probably French
The pierced removable cover with fruiting finial, above a stylised leaf moulded rim and two spirally-twisted handles, above a flared socle on a canted rectangular green-and-white veined marble base, with a bird to each side and foliate mounts to the corners, on a laurel-tied square canted plinth, lacking two corner mounts to the base, minor restorations to the fluorspar
14½ in. (37 cm.) high
Second half 19th Century, probably French
The pierced removable cover with fruiting finial, above a stylised leaf moulded rim and two spirally-twisted handles, above a flared socle on a canted rectangular green-and-white veined marble base, with a bird to each side and foliate mounts to the corners, on a laurel-tied square canted plinth, lacking two corner mounts to the base, minor restorations to the fluorspar
14½ in. (37 cm.) high
Sale room notice
Shore of Matlock, Derbyshire, who were skilled at hollowing blue john and who combined ready-supplied mounts with their vases in the mid-19th Century, made similar vases to the present lot. A crater-shaped vase possibly by this firm, is exhibited in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, no. 69.