13th Sep, 2024 9:30 GMT/BST
The Swinton Sale
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An English Porcelain Dinner Service, mid 19th century, painted with birds in branches and with scattered insects within gilt line borders, comprising:
1 soup tureen and cover
4 vegetable tureens and covers
4 sauce tureens, covers and stands
3 oval platters
2 smaller oval platters
1 footed twin-handled bowl
16 plates
Sold for £1,900
Estimated at £800 - £1,200
No pattern numbers or factory marks, some pieces with impressed letters. Probably Coalport.
Plates 26.5cm wide, soup tureen 31cm wide by 26cm high, platters 31.5cm wide and 27cm wide
The condition is generally good. The porcelain still clean and white with the glaze and enamels in good order. The gilding has some wear, heavy in places. There has been no professional repair beyond the staples mentioned below.
Soup tureen - hair crack across the base
Vegetable tureens and covers - two knops chipped, one cover broken into four, stapled and with some infill repairs, one cover with two rim cracks, one tureen broken into three and stapled, another with a very short hair crack to the rim near the handle
Sauce tureens, covers and stands - one tureen with two cracks across the bottom, another with one crack across the bottom, a third tureen with a rim crack, crazed and stained
3 platters - one with a rim crack, a well crack and stained
2 smaller platters - one with a stapled crack in the well and heavily crazed
Footed bowl - hair crack in one painted panel
The plates - one with some wide crazing
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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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