A PAIR OF GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED BLUE JOHN 'GOAT'S HEAD' CANDLE VASES
A PAIR OF GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED BLUE JOHN 'GOAT'S HEAD' CANDLE VASES
BY MATTHEW BOULTON, CIRCA 1768-82
Each with a reversible cover with spirally-fluted finial and similar nozzle, with goat's masks to the rim hung with laurel swags, above a stiff-leaf cradle and spreading spiral-fluted socle on a square stepped plinth and ball feet, one incised 'VIII'
8 ¾ in. (22 cm.) high
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A PAIR OF GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED BLUE JOHN 'GOAT'S HEAD' CANDLE VASES
BY MATTHEW BOULTON, CIRCA 1768-82
Each with a reversible cover with spirally-fluted finial and similar nozzle, with goat's masks to the rim hung with laurel swags, above a stiff-leaf cradle and spreading spiral-fluted socle on a square stepped plinth and ball feet, one incised 'VIII'
8 ¾ in. (22 cm.) high