A GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED BLUE JOHN, SIMULATED LAPIS LAZULI AND EBONY `SPHINX` VASE PERFUME-BURNER

Lot 58
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ID 1536657
Lot 58 | A GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED BLUE JOHN, SIMULATED LAPIS LAZULI AND EBONY 'SPHINX' VASE PERFUME-BURNER
Valeur estimée
$ 60 000 – 100 000
A GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED BLUE JOHN, SIMULATED LAPIS LAZULI AND EBONY 'SPHINX' VASE PERFUME-BURNER
BY MATTHEW BOULTON, CIRCA 1769-70
With pierced fruited lid and campana body with guilloche band displaying four foliate lion masks, the plinth with swagged simulated lapis lazuli glass panels and recumbent sphinx supports over the base with ebony panels overlaid with scrolling foliage, parts variously notched with numerals I, II, III or IIII throughout
13 in. high (33 cm.), 6 in. (15.2 cm.) square




Provenance

Anonymous sale, Mathias, Le Roux-Morel, Baron, Ribeyre, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 28 March 2007, lot 168.
'Dealing in Excellence: A Celebration of Hotspur and Jeremy'; Christie's, London, 20 November 2008, lot 30.
With Mallett, London.
Acquired by Irene Roosevelt Aitken from the above on 11 July 2013.



Literature

Mallett, Catalogue, London, pp. 70-71.
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