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拍品专文
The design of these perfume-burners or cassolettes, with its tripod form and classically-inspired ornamentation depicting ovoid egg-shaped 'sacred-urns' with winged siren-monopodia, derives from antiquity and was associated both then and in eighteenth-century England with dining and hospitality. As Mrs. Montagu noted in a letter to Boulton in 1773: '... my friends reproach me that I do not regale their noses with fine odors after entertaining their plates with soups and ragouts. The cassolettes [are] used to make their entry with dessert and chase away the smell of dinner' (N. Goodison, Ormolu: The Work of Matthew Boulton, London, 1974, p. 25).
Boulton subscribed to many of the leading eighteenth century architectural and archaeological publications and the term figures which appear on these perfume-burners relate closely to those which appear in a design by Michaelangelo Pergolesi, found amongst his pattern books. Similar figures also feature in a design by James Wyatt (K. Quickenden, 'Boulton and Fothergill Silver', Burlington Magazine, June 1986, p. 419) as well as in other drawings and works produced by Boulton and Fothergill (R. Rowe, Adam Silver, London, 1965, fig. 47 and N. Goodison, ibid., fig. 125).
A pair of identical perfume-burners with pedestals from the collection of the Earls of Jersey, was sold by Viscount Villiers; Christie's, London, 17 November 1994, lot 26 (£276,500). Produced by Boulton in 1771, Sir Robert Child acquired the Villiers pair for the with drawing room at Osterley Park House, Middlesex, in Christie and Ansell's sale room in April 1772 (N. Goodison, Matthew Boulton: Ormolu, London, 2002, p. 358, figs. 363-364). Other identical examples are in the collection at Temple Newsam, Leeds (C. Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, London, 1978, vol. II, p. 385, fig. 510; this example lacks its burner) and at Soho House, Birmingham (Goodison, ibid., p. 358, fig. 362). A further pair of this form was purchased from Mallett, London and is illustrated in The Age of Matthew Boulton: Masterpieces of Neoclassicism, London, 2000, pp. 66-67. A single perfume-burner of this model was sold anonymously, Christie's, New York, 19 October 2000, lot 69 and a pair without the suspended oil burner, was sold anonymously, Christie's, London, 5 June 2008, lot 32.
Boulton subscribed to many of the leading eighteenth century architectural and archaeological publications and the term figures which appear on these perfume-burners relate closely to those which appear in a design by Michaelangelo Pergolesi, found amongst his pattern books. Similar figures also feature in a design by James Wyatt (K. Quickenden, 'Boulton and Fothergill Silver', Burlington Magazine, June 1986, p. 419) as well as in other drawings and works produced by Boulton and Fothergill (R. Rowe, Adam Silver, London, 1965, fig. 47 and N. Goodison, ibid., fig. 125).
A pair of identical perfume-burners with pedestals from the collection of the Earls of Jersey, was sold by Viscount Villiers; Christie's, London, 17 November 1994, lot 26 (£276,500). Produced by Boulton in 1771, Sir Robert Child acquired the Villiers pair for the with drawing room at Osterley Park House, Middlesex, in Christie and Ansell's sale room in April 1772 (N. Goodison, Matthew Boulton: Ormolu, London, 2002, p. 358, figs. 363-364). Other identical examples are in the collection at Temple Newsam, Leeds (C. Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, London, 1978, vol. II, p. 385, fig. 510; this example lacks its burner) and at Soho House, Birmingham (Goodison, ibid., p. 358, fig. 362). A further pair of this form was purchased from Mallett, London and is illustrated in The Age of Matthew Boulton: Masterpieces of Neoclassicism, London, 2000, pp. 66-67. A single perfume-burner of this model was sold anonymously, Christie's, New York, 19 October 2000, lot 69 and a pair without the suspended oil burner, was sold anonymously, Christie's, London, 5 June 2008, lot 32.