A PAIR OF GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED BLUE-JOHN CANDLE VASES BY MATTHEW BOULTON CIRCA 1770 Each gadrooned lid above a similarly gadrooned waisted neck and ovoid body hung with laurel swags suspended from flowerheads and with acanthus leaf-wrapped bases, on a spiral-fluted socle and square foot with Greek-key edge, the cylindrical base applied with lion masks draped with laurel swags over a stepped plinth with guilloche edges, minor variations in the height of the blue-john urn-sections and in the casting of the stiff-leaf collars around the bases of the plinths, one vase with replaced thread and one acanthus-leaf to base of body replaced 10½ in. (27 cm.) and 11 in. (28 cm.) high respectively (2)
A PAIR OF GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED BLUE-JOHN CANDLE VASES BY MATTHEW BOULTON CIRCA 1770 Each gadrooned lid above a similarly gadrooned waisted neck and ovoid body hung with laurel swags suspended from flowerheads and with acanthus leaf-wrapped bases, on a spiral-fluted socle and square foot with Greek-key edge, the cylindrical base applied with lion masks draped with laurel swags over a stepped plinth with guilloche edges, minor variations in the height of the blue-john urn-sections and in the casting of the stiff-leaf collars around the bases of the plinths, one vase with replaced thread and one acanthus-leaf to base of body replaced 10½ in. (27 cm.) and 11 in. (28 cm.) high respectively (2)
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