A PAIR OF GEORGE III ORMOLU AND ORMOLU-MOUNTED WHITE MARBLE CASSOLETTES attributed to Matthew Boulton, each with domed acanthus- cast removable lid surmounted by a flaming finial and enclosing a foliate-cast turned nozzle and dished drip-pan, the ovoid turned body with an guilloche flowerhead collar and flanked by twin scrolled acanthus-cast arms, the stiff-leaf cast turned spreading socle with laurel-cast plinth and stepped base | Christie's

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III ORMOLU AND ORMOLU-MOUNTED WHITE MARBLE CASSOLETTES attributed to Matthew Boulton, each with domed acanthus- cast removable lid surmounted by a flaming finial and enclosing a foliate-cast turned nozzle and dished drip-pan, the ovoid turned body with an guilloche flowerhead collar and flanked by twin scrolled acanthus-cast arms, the stiff-leaf cast turned spreading socle with laurel-cast plinth and stepped base

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III ORMOLU AND ORMOLU-MOUNTED WHITE MARBLE CASSOLETTES attributed to Matthew Boulton, each with domed acanthus- cast removable lid surmounted by a flaming finial and enclosing a foliate-cast turned nozzle and dished drip-pan, the ovoid turned body with an guilloche flowerhead collar and flanked by twin scrolled acanthus-cast arms, the stiff-leaf cast turned spreading socle with laurel-cast plinth and stepped base
7¼in.(18.5cm.)high (2)

Lot Essay

An almost identical design is included in the pattern books of Boulton and Forthergill, Book I, pl. 171, pl. e (reproduced in N., Goodison, Ormolu, The Work of Matthew Boulton, 1974, pl. 161)

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