Pastille burner
Category
Metalwork
Date
1795 - 1805
Materials
Bronze
Measurements
355 mm (Height); 165 mm (Diameter)
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Osterley Park and House, London
NT 771987.1.1
Summary
Stand, as part of a pastille burner, making up a pair. Bronze and partly gilt. The tazza-shaped vessel has a pierced top surmounted by a gilt dragon and is mounted on three serpentine supports with lionheads and wings at the top and ending in a scroll with a bronze cameo medallion of classical female head, within them a gilt urn-shaped lamp. All standing on paw feet and a shaped triangular base.
Provenance
Possibly acquired by Sarah Sophia, 5th Countess of Jersey