A Selected Collection of English Derbyshire Spa Vases ,Commonly known as Blue John ,Including a Pair of Matthew Boulton Goats Head Ormorlu Mounted Cassolettes with an Extraordinary Rare  English Cartonier (  Bureau Chest of Drawers )  Covered in a Geometric Design of Forty Five Selected Stones with an Interesting Hidden Secret Sliding Compartment .The whole finished with a Pair of Original , Wonderful Chippendale Period Bronzed Laquered Swan Neck Carrying Handles .

Of all the Mining done by the Romans Two Thousand Years Ago this particular Rare Mineral is the Most Beautiful ( not to forget quite brittle ) .

Derbyshire Spa  - Blue John is a Semi-Precious Mineral with Bands of a Purple Blue or Yellow Colour . Only found at The Blue John Cavern and Treak Cliff Cavern at Castleton in Derbyshire UK . 

Private Collection UK

See Mathew Boulton  Ormolu Page 333   by   Nicholas Goodison  for examples .

Note , this pair was vettted by Sir Nicholas many years ago saying " if only I had seen this exact model before writing this book "

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