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A GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED BLUEJOHN ORNAMENTAL URN
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A GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED BLUEJOHN ORNAMENTAL URN

LATE 18TH CENTURY

Details
A GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED BLUEJOHN ORNAMENTAL URN
Late 18th century
The urn shaped body with ram's mask and floral and fruiting swag mounts on a waisted socle and plinth base
12¼ in. (31 cm.)
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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis. This lot will be removed to an off-site warehouse at the close of business on the day of sale - 2 weeks free storage

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Lot Essay

The chimney-piece garniture comprising a plinth-supported blue-john urn, with bacchic fruit-garlanded ram-heads, thyrsus-finial and palm-flowered base, is designed in the George III French/antique fashion introduced in the 1760s at the Birmingham manufactory established by Messrs Boulton and Fothergill (their work is discussed N. Goodison ,Ormolu, London, 2002).

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