Provenance & Patina: Important English Furniture from a West Coast Collection
Provenance & Patina: Important English Furniture from a West Coast Collection
A Pair of George III Ormolu Mounted Blue John Perfume Burners by Matthew Boulton and John Fothergill, Circa 1775
Auction Closed
June 18, 08:33 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
each with a later domed foliate lid with a flower bud finial above a pierced rim and mounted with scrolling foliate handles with ram’s head terminals, hung laurel garlands, and ribboned oak leaf swags above a fluted socle on a stepped square foot with an egg and dart border, in turn on a white marble waisted socle with a Vitruvian scroll-cast ormolu band
height 9 ½ in.; width 5 ¼ in.; depth 3 ½ in.
24.1 cm; 13.3 cm; 8.9 cm
Private Collection: West Country, UK;
Rolleston, London, 3 April 2023.
N. Goodison, Ormolu: The Work of Matthew Boulton, London, 1974, fig. 141.
N Goodison, Matthew Boulton: Ormolu, London, 2002, p.305, fig. 279.
