A pair of late 18th century and later adapted gilt bronze mounted porcelain casselottes or candle vases


the mounts by Matthew Boulton and John Fothergill, circa 1775, the associated Sèvres porcelain bodies probably late 18th or early 19th century the scrolling acanthus and lappet handles with rams head terminals united by laurel swags, the guilloche rims below acanthus knot finials reversing to stiff leaf urn nozzles on laurel wreath socles and stepped square bases, the ovoid porcelain bodies enamelled with sprays of garden flowers (later drilled), 23cm high overall (2)
|The original design for these vases is illustrated in Boulton's Pattern Book 1, p. 171.For a comparrable pair of similarly mounted vases, see Matthew Boulton: Ormolu, Nicholas Goodison, Christies, 2002, fig. 278, p. 305.