拍品专文
These dish rings, conceived in the classical style, derive from classical hollow-sided or waisted altar pedestals. They are embellished with a fretted ribbon guilloche of acanthus flowers emerging from Vitruvian acanthus-wrapped wave scrolls. A similar dish ring of the same year was sold Christie's New York, 22 October 1984, lot 79. Similarly decorated, it was further fitted with a ring supporting three burners and a detachable part-wood side handle. Another related dish ring by Matthew Boulton of Birmingham, 1774, is illustrated in R. Rowe, Adam Silver, London, 1965, pls. 54 and 55B.
Henry Scott, 3rd Buke of Buccleuch, after Thomas Gainsborough © National Portrait Gallery, London