13th Sep, 2024 9:30 GMT/BST

The Swinton Sale

 
  Lot 39
 

39

A George III and Later Silver Table-Service
Various Maker’s and Dates

Old English pattern, most pieces engraved with the Greame crest, comprising
18 table-spoons
18 table-forks
17 dessert-spoons
11 dessert-forks
3 sauce-ladles
114oz 10dwt, 3,560gr (67)

Sold for £1,800
Estimated at £1,500 - £2,500


 

There is overall surface scratching and wear consistent with age and use. The wear is noticeable as a softening to the tines on many pieces and the engraving. Some pieces are unengraved.

18 table-spoons, four by George Smith, 1798; six by Richard Crossley, 1803; four by Eley and Fearn, 1805 and four by William Bateman, one 1816 and three 1820
18 table-forks, four York
17 dessert-spoons
11 dessert-forks
3 sauce-ladles

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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