Description
Pair of perfume-burner vases in sea-green marble, patinated bronze and ormolu, with openwork decoration of oves, interlacing and gadroons, the base with draperies (on a blue-painted background), resting on turtles supported by a counter-socle with a frieze of foliage scrolls; (small accidents). After a model by Matthew Boulton. Circa 1830-1840. Height 36 cm; Width: 14 cm; Depth: 14 cm This model of incense-burner vase is a close variant of a pair of Blue John vases with sphinxes now in the King of England's collection at Buckingham Palace. While directly inspired by them, the body of the vase is not made in the usual Blue John of Matthew Boulton's productions of the 1770s, but in a sea-green marble more commonly used in the first half of the 19th century. Another pair of similar vases, this time in porphyry, was sold at Christie's in Paris on April 14, 2015, lot 183, then by the De Baecque study also in Paris, September 20, 2016, lot 122
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Pair of perfume-burner vases in sea-green marble, patinated bronze and ormolu, with openwork decoration of oves, interlacing and gadroons, the base with draperies (on a blue-painted background), resting on turtles supported by a counter-socle with a frieze of foliage scrolls; (small accidents). After a model by Matthew Boulton. Circa 1830-1840. Height 36 cm; Width: 14 cm; Depth: 14 cm This model of incense-burner vase is a close variant of a pair of Blue John vases with sphinxes now in the King of England's collection at Buckingham Palace. While directly inspired by them, the body of the vase is not made in the usual Blue John of Matthew Boulton's productions of the 1770s, but in a sea-green marble more commonly used in the first half of the 19th century. Another pair of similar vases, this time in porphyry, was sold at Christie's in Paris on April 14, 2015, lot 183, then by the De Baecque study also in Paris, September 20, 2016, lot 122
