拍品专文
These 'Griffin' vase perfume-burners are of a model of which eight pairs were included in Boulton's first sale at Christie's in 1771. Although no actual design survives they correspond to the description in the catalogue and others survive. (N. Goodison, Ormolu: The Work of Matthew Boulton, London, 1974, pp. 157-158 and pl. 90)
The tripods comprise sunflower-tazze supported by confronted griffin that are sacred to Apollo and associated with fire. While recalling the celebrated marble antiquity in the Capitoline Museum, the laurel-festooned griffin model relates to a candlestick which may have been one of the 'modells' lent to Boulton in 1770 by the architect William Chambers and which later featured in his Treatise on Civil Architecture, 3rd. ed., 1791.
This pattern of Boulton tripod pedestal also featured with three porcelain vases, sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 10 April 1986, lot 1
The tripods comprise sunflower-tazze supported by confronted griffin that are sacred to Apollo and associated with fire. While recalling the celebrated marble antiquity in the Capitoline Museum, the laurel-festooned griffin model relates to a candlestick which may have been one of the 'modells' lent to Boulton in 1770 by the architect William Chambers and which later featured in his Treatise on Civil Architecture, 3rd. ed., 1791.
This pattern of Boulton tripod pedestal also featured with three porcelain vases, sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 10 April 1986, lot 1