Lot Essay
These candle-vases correspond to a pattern in Matthew Boulton's pattern books and repeat some features of documented vases (see: N. Goodison, Ormolu: The Work of Matthew Boulton, London, 1974, pp. 151-2, pl. 163h)
A pair of vases of this model but with laurel instead of drapery swags are illustrated ibid., pl. 115. A further pair of the latter type and with yellow marble bodies were sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 10 April 1986, lot 2
A pair of vases of this model but with laurel instead of drapery swags are illustrated ibid., pl. 115. A further pair of the latter type and with yellow marble bodies were sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 10 April 1986, lot 2