ATTRIBUTED TO MATTHEW BOULTON, CIRCA 1770

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A NEAR PAIR OF GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED BLUE JOHN URNS
ATTRIBUTED TO MATTHEW BOULTON, CIRCA 1770
The strigilated removable covers flanked by swag-hung ram's masks, the figured bodies with leaf-cast lower mount and conforming strigilated socles on stepped bases with ball feet, conceived as cassolettes, one lacking swag, both lacking nozzles, one body repaired, minor differences
8 in. (20 cm.) high; 3 in. (7.5 cm.) wide

Provenance

Possibly supplied to Henry, 2nd Earl Bathurst (1714-1794) for Apsley House, London or Cirencester House, Gloucestershire, and by descent in the collection of the Earls Bathurst.

Literature

C. Hussey, ‘Cirencester House, Gloucestershire – I’, Country Life, 16 June 1950, p. 1800, illustrated in the south drawing room.

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