Treasures
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A George III gilt-bronze and Blue John candelabrum, circa 1775, by Matthew Boulton
Estimate
50,000 - 80,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
the reversible cassolette lid with a single candle holder on one side and a finial with foliage and a pine cone on the other, the oviform Blue John body with a hollowed, gilt-bronze lined well in the centre and encircled by a the guilloche-form mount, the winged caryatid-form handles with each issuing a single candle arm, the spreading gilt-bronze foot on a square marble socle
37cm high, 39cm wide, 12.5cm deep;
1ft. 2 ½ in., 1ft. 3 ⅜ in., 4 ⅞ in.
Acquired from an Italian collection by the present owner.
Examples of the same model
M. Jourdain, ‘Matthew Boulton: An Artist in Ormolu’, Country Life Annual, 1950, p.52, fig.2 and 3.
N. Goodison, Matthew Boulton: Ormolu, London, 1974, figs. 126-128
H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol I, p.270, fig.4.10.3.
N. Goodison, Matthew Boulton: Ormolu, London, 2002 rev. ed., fig. 365-370, pp.359-361.
Sotheby’s, Art at Auction 1997-1998, 1998, p.142
A. Coleridge, ‘When Vases were the Rage’, Country Life, 5 September 2002, p.147, fig.2.
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