A PAIR OF GEORGE III ORMOLU AND BLUEJOHN CASSOLETTES

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III ORMOLU AND BLUEJOHN CASSOLETTES
BY MATTHEW BOULTON

Each with gadrooned stepped lid with foliate finial and with a fluted urn-shaped nozzle to the reverse, above a circular drip-pan and ovoid body hung with laurel-swags, on a stiff-leaf brace and spirally-fluted spreading circular foot, on a stepped plinth with Greek-key band and black and white speckled glass sides, on ball feet, one with underside inscribed Plnh pr and the other Plnh OS TY 15929 base
10½in. (27cm.) high (2)

拍品专文

Sir Nicholas Goodison has tentatively identified this model of Boulton's vases with the references to 'Cleopatra' vases that appear in his records and the Christie's sales. One of the 1771 catalogue descriptions mentions them being mounted on bases 'of a curious composition' which probably refers to the coloured glass simulating rare marbles (N. Goodison, Ormolu: The Work of Matthew Boulton, London, 1974, pp. 143-144 and figs. 112-113)