13th Sep, 2024 9:30 GMT/BST
The Swinton Sale
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A George IV Irish Gold Freedom-Box
Maker's Mark HF Incuse, Possibly For Henry Flavelle, Dublin, 1826, 18ct
oblong, the hinged cover with robust cast and applied foliage and flower border and engraved with the coat-of-arms of New Ross, engraved underneath with an inscription
77mm wide by 50mm wide, 3oz 14dwt, 115gr
Provenance:
Presented along with the Freedom of New Ross to the Reverend James Thomas O'Brien, Bishop of Ossory, almost certainly given to his daughter
Dora Letitia O'Brien who married Lieutenant-Colonel Yarburgh George Lloyd-Greame (1840-1928) and by descent.
The inscription reads 'The Freedom of the Corporation of New Ross Presented to the Rev'd Ja's Thomas O'Brien F.T., C.D. As a Testimonium of their high regard for his character as Scholar and a Gentleman 1827'.
A silver-gilt snuff-box of very similar profile and with nearly identical borders by the same maker, though set with a micromosaic depicting the Colosseum, is in the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert collection, on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (Museum no. Loan:Gilbert.927-2008).
Sold for £15,000
Estimated at £5,000 - £8,000
Fully marked inside base and further part marked inside cover. There is some very minor wear to the marks but each is still legible. There is some overall surface scratching and wear, consistent with age and use.
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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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