Lot 86
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A PAIR OF GEORGE III BLUE-JOHN AND WHITE MARBLE SOLID URNS
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A PAIR OF GEORGE III BLUE-JOHN AND WHITE MARBLE SOLID URNS

CIRCA 1770

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III BLUE-JOHN AND WHITE MARBLE SOLID URNS
CIRCA 1770
Each with well-marked body, on a square plinth edged with slate and white marble
Each 10¾ in. (28 cm.) high; 3½ in. (9 cm.) square (2)
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Lot Essay

This mantelpiece-garniture of plinth-supported and richly figured urns have bodies shaped as eggs that evoke Ovid's Metamorphoses and the history of Jupiter and Leda. This was a popular vase form in the ormolu-enriched manufactures, such as the bacchic 'goat-head' urns, executed around 1770 by Matthew Boulton (N. Goodison, Ormolu: The Work of Matthew Boulton, London, 1974, fig. 163, no. F).

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