A GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED BLUE JOHN AND WHITE MARBLE PERFUME BURNER

A GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED BLUE JOHN AND WHITE MARBLE PERFUME BURNER
BY MATTHEW BOULTON, CIRCA 1770
The pierced circular lid with an acorn finial, the body with a guilloche frieze hung with laurel swags and foliate loop handles above an acanthus leaf and fluted socle and concave-sided foot with guilloche decoration, the cylindrical white marble plinth with laurel swags hung from oval paterae, with egg-and-dart rim and stepped stiff-leaf cast base
9 ¼ in. (23.5 cm.) high

Provenance

The Princes of Pless, Schloss Fürstenstein, Silesia, and by descent.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 2 October 2013, lot 110.