13th Sep, 2024 9:30 GMT/BST

The Swinton Sale

 
 
 

A George II Silver-Gilt Cup and Cover
With Cancelled Marks for Lewis Pantin, London, 1735, Further Marked With Antique Plate Committee Case Number 4696

inverted bell-shaped and on shaped rocaille cast and foliage and groteque mask heightened base, with robust leaf-capped scroll handles, the body applied with flower and foliage swags and rocaille-cast cartouche on each side the lower body applied with mermaids and sea-horses, the detachable cover with applied foliage and shell borders and with a cartouche on each side, below foliage scroll cast finial, the cartouches each engraved with a crest, the cover and cover bezel each engraved with an inscription
34.5cm high, 101oz 10dwt, 3,157gr

The inscription on the cover reads 'Veritas Prevalebit August 15 1795. The Committee request that these lines may be added to the Plate. To Lt. Col. Thornton Sn. The uniform steady conduct of the soldiers of the York at Robio Tiverton & Barnham Camps, will transmit your name with that degree of credit few attain to the latest posterity. Lt Col. Thornton entails the Plate voted by the Soldiers of the York to his Heirs'.

The inscription on the bezel reads 'The Non Commission'd Officers & Soldiers of the York Reg't. requested Dr Trusley [?] to present to Lt. Col. Thornton in their name an Elegant Sword & Service of Plate, for which each Man would Subscribe one Week's pay as a Testimonia of Their love & Veneration for him. which was done in the presence of Forty officers of rank, on the 3rd of May at the Turf Tavern, that day being the Colonel's Birth day'ther items from the service exist.

For example a tureen and cover by Charles-Louis-Auguste Spriman which is now in the collection of the Louvre, Paris (https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010098952)

Estimate
£4,000 - £6,000
 

Buyer's premium: 24.00%


 

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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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