The Swinton Sale

Date: 13th Sep, 2024 9:30 GMT/BST
The Auction Centre, Leyburn
Catalogue: View Page Turner Catalogue
Lots: 328

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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Lot 97 - Beaufort (The Duke of) & Watson (Alfred E.T.)....

Sold for £800
Estimated at £600 - £1,000

Lot 98 - Attributed to Sir David Wilkie RA (1785-1841)...

Sold for £100
Estimated at £300 - £500

Lot 99 - An Austrian Cold-Painted Bronze Figure of a...

Sold for £400
Estimated at £150 - £200

Lot 100 - Griffiths (William). A Practical Treatise on...

Sold for £220
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 101 - Donovan (E.). The Natural History of British...

Sold for £190
Estimated at £300 - £500

Lot 103 - Donovan (E.). The Natural History of British...

Sold for £700
Estimated at £400 - £600

Lot 104 - An Edwardian Mahogany, Boxwood-Strung and...

Sold for £350
Estimated at £150 - £200

Lot 105 - A Set of Eight Marcolini Meissen Porcelain...

Sold for £420
Estimated at £400 - £600

Lot 106 - A Late 19th Century Mahogany Tripod Torchere,...

Sold for £160
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 109 - William Ellis Barrington Browne (1908-1985)...

Sold for £320
Estimated at £250 - £400

Lot 110 - Honora Jackson (fl.1918-1948) A day at the...

Sold for £650
Estimated at £70 - £100

Lot 111 - Tolkien (J.R.R.). The Lord of the Rings...

Sold for £750
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 112 - Milne (A.A.). Winnie-The-Pooh. Methuen, 1926,...

Sold for £1,800
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 114 - A Victorian Figured Walnut and Boxwood-Strung...

Sold for £250
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 116 - An Irish Killarney Walnut and Marquetry Centre...

Sold for £1,700
Estimated at £400 - £600

Lot 117 - A Pair of George IV Carved Giltwood Pole...

Sold for £280
Estimated at £400 - £600

Lot 119 - A George III Mahogany Armchair, circa 1780,...

Sold for £1,800
Estimated at £600 - £800

Lot 120 - A George III Mahogany Serpentine-Front Chest...

Sold for £1,100
Estimated at £1,200 - £1,800

Lot 134 - Churchill (Winston S.). A History of the...

Sold for £220
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 135 - Yorkshire Manuscript. Yorkshire Pedigrees and...

Sold for £250
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 136 - Payne-Gallwey (Sir Ralph). The Crossbow....

Sold for £100
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 137 - Payne-Gallwey (Sir Ralph). The Book of Duck...

Sold for £90
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 138 - Committee of Inquiry on Grouse Disease. The...

Sold for £100
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 139 - Grimm's Fairy Tales. The Fairy Tales of the...

Sold for £130
Estimated at £80 - £120

Lot 140 - Barrie (J. M.). The Uniform Edition of the...

Sold for £150
Estimated at £80 - £120

Lot 142 - Modern First Editions. Amis (Kingsley), The...

Sold for £380
Estimated at £80 - £120

Lot 143 - Pennant (Thomas). The View of Hindoostan,...

Sold for £190
Estimated at £40 - £60

Lot 146 - Decorative Manuscript. Lloyd (Pattie), The...

Sold for £350
Estimated at £50 - £80

Lot 148 - Payne-Gallwey (Sir Ralph). Letters to Young...

Sold for £150
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 149 - Scrope (William). Days and Nights of Salmon...

Sold for £170
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 150 - Alken (Henry). Scraps from the Sketch Book of...

Sold for £420
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 151 - Dickens (Charles). The Centenary Edition of...

Sold for £500
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 152 - Walpole (Horace). The Letters of Horace...

Sold for £110
Estimated at £100 - £200

Lot 154 - Bindings. A quantity of books, predominantly...

Sold for £550
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 155 - A Pair of Gilt-Metal-Mounted Sèvres-Style...

Sold for £80
Estimated at £100 - £150

Lot 156 - A Composite Staffordshire Earthenware Dinner...

Sold for £40
Estimated at £100 - £150

Lot 157 - A Set of Six Copeland Spode Porcelain Menu...

Sold for £70
Estimated at £100 - £150

Lot 159 - A Royal Copenhagen Figure of a Lioness, 20th...

Sold for £160
Estimated at £200 - £300

Lot 160 - A Wedgwood Black-Glazed Figure of a Bull,...

Sold for £190
Estimated at £150 - £200

Lot 162 - A Late 19th/Early 20th Century Leather-Bound...

Sold for £120
Estimated at £120 - £180

Lot 165 - A Nest of Three Italian Giltwood Nesting...

Sold for £80
Estimated at £70 - £100

Lot 167 - A Late 19th Century Adam-Style Mirror, the...

Sold for £250
Estimated at £70 - £100

Lot 168 - A George III Mahogany Dressing Stool, early...

Sold for £70
Estimated at £100 - £150

Lot 169 - A 20th Century French-Style Mahogany and...

Sold for £150
Estimated at £100 - £150

Lot 170 - A Regency Mahogany Trestle Table, circa 1820,...

Sold for £100
Estimated at £100 - £150

Lot 171 - An Early 20th Century Trunk, labelled Pukka,...

Sold for £50
Estimated at £100 - £150

Lot 172 - Six Assorted 18th/19th Century Dining Chairs,...

Sold for £900
Estimated at £100 - £150

Lot 174 - A George III Mahogany and Boxwood-Strung...

Sold for £50
Estimated at £100 - £150

Lot 176 - A Late George III Mahogany Bedside Cupboard,...

Sold for £50
Estimated at £100 - £150

Lot 177 - A Set of Three George III-Style Mahogany...

Sold for £60
Estimated at £70 - £100

Lot 178 - After Archibald Thorburn FZS (1860-1935) A...

Sold for £320
Estimated at £60 - £90

Lot 179 - Nicholas Pocock OWS (1740-1821) Naval vessels...

Sold for £200
Estimated at £300 - £500

Lot 180 - Woolf (Virginia). A collection of works by...

Sold for £1,100
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 181 - After Richard Parkes Bonington (1802-1828)...

Sold for £220
Estimated at £60 - £90

Lot 182 - Kipling (Rudyard). A collection of works by...

Sold for £650
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 186 - Yorkshire. Marshall (Mr.), The Rural Economy...

Sold for £90
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 187 - MacGibbon (David) and Ross (Thomas). The...

Sold for £350
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 188 - Bewick (Thomas). A History of British Birds:...

Sold for £400
Estimated at £150 - £250

Lot 189 - Pratt (Anne). The Flowering Plants of Great...

Sold for £500
Estimated at £150 - £250