A GEORGE III ORMOLU VASE

Lot 555
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ID 820104
Lot 555 | A GEORGE III ORMOLU VASE
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$ 30 000 – 50 000
A GEORGE III ORMOLU VASE

ATTRIBUTED TO DIEDERICH NICOLAUS ANDERSON, ALMOST CERTAINLY AFTER A DESIGN BY JAMES ‘ATHENIAN’ STUART, CIRCA 1765

Surmounted by a flaming finial, the Vitruvian scroll rim above a spirally-fluted waisted neck encircled with anthemion against a green ground, between scrolled handles issuing from satyr masks, the body with a collar of foliage and anthemion between beaded bands against a green ground, the matted body mounted with foliate clasps, above a spirally-fluted socle with flower-head collar and on a flower-filled guilloche foot, the green ground refreshed and previously blue painted, with printed and inscribed Ann and Gordon Getty Collection inventory label

14 in. (35.5 cm.) high, 8 1/2 in. (21.5 cm.) wide





Provenance

Property of a Gentleman; Sotheby’s, London, 9 July 1976, lot 17.

Acquired from Hotspur, London, by Ann and Gordon Getty in 1994.



Literature

N. Goodison, Matthew Boulton – Ormolu, London, 2002 (2nd ed.), p. 377, footnote 53.

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