A PAIR OF GEORGE III BLUE JOHN PERFUME BURNERS, English, circa 1775
Width: 4½ in; 11.5 cm
Depth: 3½ in; 9 cm
Provenance
Mrs. E. W. Angell, Bath, England;
Charles Angell Ltd., Bath, England, 1962;
Ayer & Co. Ltd., London, England, 1973;
Private collection, England;
Partridge Fine Arts Ltd., London, England, 1980;
Private collection, England.
Exhibitions
CINOA International Art Treasures Exhibition, London, 1962; with Charles Angell Ltd.
CINOA International Art Treasures Exhibition, Bath, 1973; with Ayer & Co. Ltd.
Literature
H. H. Mulliner, The Decorative Arts in England 1660-1780, 1923, fig. 169.
Sotheby & Co., ‘A Collection of English Furniture, Barometers & Clocks formed by a Gentleman residing in New York’, sale catalogue, 27-8 June 1974, p. 95.
Robin Kern, Hotspur Golden Jubilee, 1924-1974, 1974, pl. 28.
Nicholas Goodison, Matthew Boulton: Ormolu, 2002, p. 302, illus. 268.
Illustrated:
CINOA International Art Treasures Exhibition, Bath, 1973, pl. 244, entry 281.
Christie’s, ‘Important English Furniture’, sale catalogue, 24 April 1980, p. 59, lot 89.
Ronald Phillips Ltd., ‘Fine Antique English Furniture’, catalogue, 2014, pp. 88-9.
