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Artworks
A PAIR OF GEORGE III VASES BY MATTHEW BOULTON , English, circa 1775
Height: 11 ½ in; 19 cm4484721The turned and reeded covers above a waisted section with guilloche borders, the foliate cast arched handles joined by husk swags above a stiff leaf frieze and waisted laurel-wreath socle;...The turned and reeded covers above a waisted section with guilloche borders, the foliate cast arched handles joined by husk swags above a stiff leaf frieze and waisted laurel-wreath socle; the stepped plinths mounted at the angles with ram's head masks and further ribbon-tied husk swags around medallions cast in low relief to each side and depicting classical figures after the antique, each urn with one hand-coloured biscuit cameo, in blue and white and red and white respectively.
Provenance
Acquired by Sir Sydney Barratt from Temple Williams Ltd., London, 15 June 1961 and by descent.Literature
N. Goodison, Matthew Boulton: Ormolu, Christie's London, 2002, p. 115, fig. 80.
