13th Sep, 2024 9:30 GMT/BST
The Swinton Sale
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Jabes Heenck (1752-1782) Dutch
Owl on a branch
Watercolour, 37.5 cm by 25cm
Provenance: Thomas Agnew & Sons, London
Sold for £350
Estimated at £400 - £600
Laid on blacking paper, all edges visible. Slight undulations at the bottom edge, and edges lifting slightly in a few places. Slightly more marked undulation in the tree trunk bottom left corner. A coupl of very tiny lumps/creases at the top and left edge, and a feint 3/4 inch crease bottom right corner. A couple of tiny nicks to the paper. Very finescale but stable cracking to the glaze rich/shiny paint in the eyes, beak and outling the feathers. Colours a little faded, particularly the greens which are now blueish. Foxing spots and oxidisation of paper throughout (see images), particularly along the left edge which has darkened. A few scattered very minor dark spots and old insects on the paper surface.
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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