A pair of Blue John potpourri urns - image-1

Lot 417 Dα

A pair of Blue John potpourri urns

Auction 1208 - overview Cologne
17.11.2022, 14:30 - Decorative Arts - Sculpture Bronze Furniture Textiles
Estimate: 5.000 € - 6.000 €

A pair of Blue John potpourri urns

Gilt metal-mounted English carved fluorite vases with berry finials on tripod supports terminating in six hoof feet resting on white marble inswept triangular plinths. Re-gilt, older restorations and chips to both lids. H 38 cm.
Probably Soho Manufactory Birmingham, design attributed to Matthew Boulton, circa 1770 - 80.

In the 1770s, Matthew Boulton (1728 - 1802) worked together with John Fothergrill to perfect the industrial production of gilt metal mountings after French designs. The results were so satisfactory Tsarina Catherine the Great even preferred their products to the French originals.