BY MATTHEW BOULTON

細節

A PAIR OF GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED BLUEJOHN CASSOLETTES
By Matthew Boulton
Each with domed removable cover with gadrooned finial above stylised acanthus, the reverse with an urn-form nozzle with part-fluted decoration with stiff-leaves and on a spreading waisted socle, the ovoid bluejohn bodies each with pierced acanthus-scrolled handles joined by stylised palmettes and at the base joined to the acanthus cup, on a plain spreading socle with laurel collar and square base, the cylindrical plinth with egg-and-dart cornice and stepped spreading part stiff-leaf cast base, the lowest 3/4 in. (2 cm.) giltmetal cylindrical plinth a later replacement
8½ in. (21.5 cm.) high, closed; 9½ in. (24 cm.) as candlesticks (2)

來源

Bought from Norman Adams at the Antique Dealers' Fair, Grosvenor House, June 1972

出版

C. Claxton Stevens and S. Whittington, 18th Century English Furniture, The Norman Adams Collection, Woodbridge, rev. ed., 1985, p. 456, col. pl. 45 and p. 477

注意事項

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

拍品專文

An identical pair of cassolettes was sold from the Arthur Leidesdorf Collection, Sotheby's London, 28 June 1974, lot 95.
This Boulton bluejohn garniture of vase candlesticks combine in their design various concepts such as sacrifices at love's altar inspired by Homer's Iliad, while their form recalls Ovid's history of Jupiter and Leda recounted in his Metamorphoses.
A marble vase of this pattern, but on double stepped plinth, is listed as number 859 in Boulton's Pattern Book l, p.170 (Goodison, 2002, fig. 275) In Boulton's 1782 inventory of stock carried out following his partner's death a pair of such vases were noted as '1 pair vases 859 blue john bodies' (ibid., 2002, p. 284). A pair of white marble vase candlesticks of this pattern are recorded in a private collection (ibid., fig. 276)