拍品 27
27
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A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED BLUEJOHN AND WHITE MARBLE PERFUME-BURNERS by Matthew Boulton

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A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED BLUEJOHN AND WHITE MARBLE PERFUME-BURNERS by Matthew Boulton

Each with foliate berried finial above a pierced circular cover with two tiers of leaves, the urn-shaped body with flowerhead-filled entrelac collar, flanked by loop-handles joined by laurel-swags, on a fluted spreading socle and concave-sided canted square upper plinth edged with flowerhead-filled entrelac, the main plinth with egg-and-dart cornice above laurel-swags suspended from fluted paterae, on a further stepped plinth
9in. (23cm.) high (2)

拍品专文

These brules-parfums correspond to a design in Mathhew Boulton's Pattern Book I, p. 171, illustrated in N. Goodison, Ormolu: The Work of Matthew Boulton, London, 1974, pl. 161, fig. r. Another pair of exactly this model is in the collection of the Earl of Bradford at Weston Park, Shropshire (ibid., pl. 134)
A larger pair of perfume burners of exactly this model were sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 10 April 1986, lot 3. They were 10in. (25.5cm.) high.