13th Sep, 2024 9:30 GMT/BST
The Swinton Sale
A Rare Gold Moss Agate Consular Cased Verge Pocket Watch and Chatelaine, signed Le Roy, A Paris, circa 1770, single chain fusee verge movement signed and numbered 2090, pierced balance bridge, square baluster pillars, enamel dial with Roman and Arabic numerals, pierced hands, consular case with moss agate mounted bezel and case back, back cover overlaid with gold scroll and floral decoration and two central figures in costume, case hinge stamped to both sides with maker's mark ET, with matching gold mounted moss agate chatelaine, chatelaine with scroll decoration and a central panel depicting a lady in costume playing a musical instrument and a dog beside, chatelaine with attached moss agate set winding key and moss agate set blank fob seal, chatelaine with a gilt metal back clip
46mm wide
£2,000 - £3,000
Buyer's premium: 24.00%
Case back agate is damaged with cracks and some chips, case bezel with some small cracks to the agate, dial with chips and hairline cracks, glass with scratches, hands are really tight to set, movement not winding, movement not working, balance is swinging when pushing the contrate wheel. Chatelaine with rubbing to the gilt metal back panels and back clip, winding key with rust marks and with a small chip to the agate.
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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 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 Objects 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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