BY MATTHEW BOULTON, CIRCA 1770

Details

A PAIR OF GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED BLUE JOHN CANDLE-VASES
BY MATTHEW BOULTON, CIRCA 1770
The lid with flaming finial reversing to a candle nozzle, the ovoid body with loop handles terminating in leafy sprays, on stepped ormolu plinth
6 ½ in. (16.5 cm.) high

Provenance

With Ronald Phillips, Ltd., London.
Acquired by Irene Roosevelt Aitken from the above at the International Antiques Show, New York, on 14 November 2013.

Literature

T.D. Ford, Derbyshire Bluejohn, Derbyshire, 2005, p. 35.

Exhibited

New York, The International Antiques Show, November 2013 (with Ronald Phillips).

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Lot Essay

Nicholas Goodison published the revised edition of his definitive study on Matthew Boulton in 2002. At that time, he had not identified any surviving examples corresponding to Boulton’s drawing no. 516 (see N. Goodison, Matthew Boulton: Ormolu, London, 2002, p. 319, fig. 311). This pair, therefore, which matches pattern no. 516 precisely, constitutes an exciting and significant addition to Boulton’s known oeuvre.

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