ID 820104
Lot 555 | A GEORGE III ORMOLU VASE
Estimate value
$ 30 000 – 50 000
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.
| Applied technique: | Ormolu |
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| Medium: | Gold |
| Historical era: | Georgian period |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Vases and vessels |
| Applied technique: | Ormolu |
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| Medium: | Gold |
| Historical era: | Georgian period |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Vases and vessels |
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