13th Sep, 2024 9:30 GMT/BST
The Swinton Sale
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A Gold-Mounted and Micromosaic Bonbonniere
The Micromosaic Attributed to Giacomo Raffaelli, Rome, The Box With Maker's Mark WK Incuse Only, Late 18th Century
circular, the pull off cover set with a micromosaic depicting two doves drinking from a white vase, with blue background and within red, white and turquoise border, the pull-off cover with foliage border
55mm diameter, gross weight 2oz 8dwt, 75.2gr
A plaque with a very similar view to the present was offered for sale by Aste Bolaffi, Turin, 31 May 2023 as lot 324. That example was signed 'Giacomo Raffaelli fecit' and dated '1791'.
Sold for £5,000
Estimated at £2,000 - £3,000
Tests as approximately 17.7ct.
Auction: The Swinton Sale, 13th Sep, 2024
THE SELECTED CONTENTS OF DYKES HILL HOUSE, MASHAM, NORTH YORKSHIRE, FORMERLY THE PROPERTY OF THE 2nd EARL AND COUNTESS OF SWINTON AND SOLD ON THE INSTRUCTIONS OF THE 4th EARL AND FAMILY AND THE TRUSTEES OF THE LORD SWINTON WILL TRUST
The Swinton Sale, will include a selection of fine English and Continental Furniture, Paintings, Sculpture, Chinese Works of Art, Silver, Meissen, Sèvres, Books and Objets d’Art from one of Yorkshire’s most important landed estates.
The Swinton Estate which spans approximately 20,000 acres encompasses some of the most beautiful landscape in North Yorkshire and has been in the ownership of the Cunliffe-Lister family since the 1880s. Dykes Hill House, close to Swinton Park, became the family seat and home to the 2nd Earl and Lady Masham following a life changing injury when she was thrown from her horse shortly before their wedding in 1959, causing her to be paralysed from the waist down.
The 2nd Earl died in 2006 and his widow Susan Cunliffe-Lister, Countess of Swinton, Baroness Masham of Ilton, DL, continued to lead a full life as a British crossbench member of the House of Lords. Amongst her many achievements, she was a former Paralympic athlete and was also the founder and lifelong President of the Spinal Injuries Association. She died on 12th March 2023.
Whilst a number of the chattels have been retained by the family, the remaining contents of Dykes Hill House provide a rare glimpse of what epitomises the quintessential taste of the English aristocracy.
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Wednesday 11th - Thursday 12th September 10am-4pm, and the morning of the sale from 8am.
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