A pair of ormolu perfume burners
Matthew Boulton
- Art Funded
- 1997
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Vendor
- John Whitehead
Very rare despite have been made in Birmingham.
The central vase shaped burner is decorated with three ideal busts with wings, leading down to the stems, at the bottom of which are birds claws as feet.
Provenance
Not known, but the pair has been in France since the early nineteenth century.