A PAIR OF GEORGE III ORMOLU MOUNTED BLUE JOHN PERFUME BURNERS LATE 18TH CENTURY, ATTRIBUTED TO MATTHEW BOULTON

The pattern for the base of these perfume burners, which are typically made from white marble, appear in at least four designs from Boulton's metal-work Pattern Book I preserved in the Birmingham City Museum. For a pair of white marble perfume burners of identical form in the collection at Harewood House, Yorkshire, and a further example with a blue john body, see those illustrated in Nicholas Goodison, Ormolu: The Work of Matthew Boulton, London, 2002, pp. 302-303, pls. 268-269.