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拍品专文
THE DESIGN
The distinctive form of the tripod base of this perfume burner, with slender incurved female caryatids, is clearly derived from a design for a silver ewer with a closely related base by the architect James Wyatt (1746-1813), illustrated in Goodison, Matthew Boulton: Ormolu, London, 2002, p. 87, pl. 53, which in turn was reproduced almost exactly by Boulton and Fothergill in their Pattern Book I, p. 83 (ibid., p. 87, pl. 52).
The medallions on this perfume burner reflect the renewed taste for antique cameos among fashionable collectors of the 1760's and 1770's, which were further popularized by impressions of antique originals produced by Josiah Wedgwood and particularly James Tassie, who in 1775 published A Catalogue of Impressions in Sulphur of Antique and Modern Gems, from which Pastes are Made and Sold (ibid., p. 103).
RELATED EXAMPLES
A pair of vases of this pattern is at Temple Newsam House, Yorkshire while another pair was sold anonymously, Christie's, New York, 6 July 1967, lot 48 (ibid., p. 316, pl. 304). A single marble vase was sold anonymously, Christie's, London, 7 July 1994, lot 28, while a blue john version, acquired in Posnan, Poland was offered anonymously, Christie's, London, 4 July 1996, lot 208. The latter appears to correspond with a description of a vase sold at Messrs. Christie and Ansell's Great Room, lot 65 to Mr Nixon and described as 'An essence vase in radix amethisti and ormolu on a tripod £8', while lot 60 comprised 'One pair essence vases, in marble mounted in ormolu, supported by a tripod' which also sold to Mr Nixon, this time for £16.5.6. A further single example in white marble was sold Christie's, London, 23 April 1998, lot 6.
The distinctive form of the tripod base of this perfume burner, with slender incurved female caryatids, is clearly derived from a design for a silver ewer with a closely related base by the architect James Wyatt (1746-1813), illustrated in Goodison, Matthew Boulton: Ormolu, London, 2002, p. 87, pl. 53, which in turn was reproduced almost exactly by Boulton and Fothergill in their Pattern Book I, p. 83 (ibid., p. 87, pl. 52).
The medallions on this perfume burner reflect the renewed taste for antique cameos among fashionable collectors of the 1760's and 1770's, which were further popularized by impressions of antique originals produced by Josiah Wedgwood and particularly James Tassie, who in 1775 published A Catalogue of Impressions in Sulphur of Antique and Modern Gems, from which Pastes are Made and Sold (ibid., p. 103).
RELATED EXAMPLES
A pair of vases of this pattern is at Temple Newsam House, Yorkshire while another pair was sold anonymously, Christie's, New York, 6 July 1967, lot 48 (ibid., p. 316, pl. 304). A single marble vase was sold anonymously, Christie's, London, 7 July 1994, lot 28, while a blue john version, acquired in Posnan, Poland was offered anonymously, Christie's, London, 4 July 1996, lot 208. The latter appears to correspond with a description of a vase sold at Messrs. Christie and Ansell's Great Room, lot 65 to Mr Nixon and described as 'An essence vase in radix amethisti and ormolu on a tripod £8', while lot 60 comprised 'One pair essence vases, in marble mounted in ormolu, supported by a tripod' which also sold to Mr Nixon, this time for £16.5.6. A further single example in white marble was sold Christie's, London, 23 April 1998, lot 6.