CIRCA 1800

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III BLUEJOHN AND ALABASTER COLUMNS
CIRCA 1800
Each of cylindrical form, surmounted by an urn finial, over a square black marble base, with alabaster cuffs, repair to one urn finial
14¾ in. (38 cm.) high (2)

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Lot Essay

This decorative Derbyshire garniture for a mantelpiece or bonheur-du-jour, comprised of urn-capped pillars, evokes sacrifices at Love's altar. Such columns played an important element in the George III Etruscan or Roman vase-columbarium style promoted by architects such as Robert Adam (d.1792) and by industrialists such as Matthew Boulton and Josiah Wedgwood. Similar columns appear, lacking their urn finials, in G. Bernard Hughes, "Derbyshire Blue-John", Country-Life, 3 December 1953, p. 1837.

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