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A late 19th century scale model of field cannon
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A late 19th century scale model of field cannon, the barrel with a flared muzzle on an oak carriage with twin twelve spoke steel rimmed wheels and steel m...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century European Arms, Armor and Weapons
Materials
Steel
A fine Derbyshire black marble end support specimen table
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A fine Derbyshire black marble end support specimen table, the rectangular top with a chequerboard pietra dura panel of giallo antico, portoro, brocatelle d’Espagne, bluejohn, malachite and other marbles, all set into Ashford black...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Side Tables
Materials
Marble
A pair of Napoleon III two-branch ormolu wall lights
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A pair of Napoleon III two-branch ormolu wall lights, each in the form of a tied ribbon supporting a stem of fruiting vines and foliage with gadrooned drip trays and acanthus carved ...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century French Napoleon III Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Ormolu
A pair of ormolu equine portraits of famous war horses ‘Copenhagen’ and ‘Marengo
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A pair of ormolu equine portraits of famous war horses ‘Copenhagen’ and ‘Marengo’, each with a beautifully detailed horse, the slightly stockier horse, with an elaborate deep saddle with a triangular cloth and padded roll, is probably Marengo while Copenhagen has a simpler harness and rangier body, on the original velvet ground and within rosewood a frame. English, circa 1860.
Marengo (c. 1793–1831) was Emperor Napoleon’s grey Arab war horse named after the Battle of Marengo in Italy. Although technically a pony at 14.1 hands, he was indomitable. Wounded eight times in his career, he carried the increasingly overweight Emperor at the battles of Austerlitz...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Decorative Art
Materials
Ormolu
A rare Anglo-Chinese Regency polychrome painted wax and wood group of two Chines
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A rare Anglo-Chinese Regency polychrome painted wax and wood group of two Chinese card players, both with nodding heads with horsetail top-knots, wearing jackets with large collars, ...
Category
Antique 19th Century Chinese Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
A late Louis XVI marble and ormolu portico clock
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A late Louis XVI marble and ormolu portico clock, comprising a central drum-shaped clock with a sunburst pendulum, surmounted by the gilded figure of Athena wearing armour with a plu...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Pair of bronze standing figures of Spanish explorer
Conquistador Hernan Cortes
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A pair of bronze standing figures of Spanish explorer and Conquistador, Hernan Cortes, by CharlesCumberworth, shown wearing different suits of armour, ea...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Spanish Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
A novelty maritime teak, mahogany and brass table lamp
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A novelty maritime teak, mahogany and brass table lamp, comprising a steering wheel attached to a binnacle, all within a brass railing, the wheel inlaid with a brass circlet and styl...
Category
Early 20th Century English Table Lamps
Materials
Brass
A pair mahogany Hepplewhite style arm chairs
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A pair mahogany Hepplewhite style arm chairs, each with an oval back enclosing Prince of Wales feathers with draperies and tied ribbons, the shaped arms and serpentine seat set upon ...
Category
20th Century English Hepplewhite Armchairs
Materials
Upholstery, Mahogany
A large Black Forest walnut wooden carving of an eagle
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A large Black Forest walnut wooden carving of an eagle, perched on a fall of rocks, crouching down with wings outspread and the head turned to the left...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Swiss Animal Sculptures
Materials
Walnut
A large Black Forest walnut wooden carving of an eagle
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A large Black Forest walnut wooden carving of an eagle, perched on a tree stump with wings outspread and the head turned to the right, with black stain...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Swiss Animal Sculptures
Materials
Walnut
A mahogany four-drawer serpentine chest of drawers
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A George III mahogany four-drawer serpentine chest of drawers, the shaped top with fluted cut corners, with four graduated drawers, orginal brass handels...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century French George III Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Mahogany
A fine George IV mahogany wine cooler attributed to Gillows
By Gillows of Lancaster
London
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A fine George IV mahogany wine cooler attributed to Gillows, in the form of a classical urn with everted lip and boldly gadrooned sides, set upon a flaring, flanged support with flut...
Category
Antique 1810s English George IV Wine Coolers
Materials
Mahogany
An exceptional straw work diorama of an owl and kingfisher - Leverian Museum
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
An exceptional straw work diorama of an owl and kingfisher, almost certainly by “Miss Gregg(e)” and part of the collection in the Leverian Museum, set in an oval glazed gilt case, s...
Category
Antique 1770s English Decorative Art
Materials
Straw
A striking bronze model of a Red-billed Hornbill by Geoffrey Dashwood
By Geoffrey Dashwood
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
Geoffrey Dashwood: A striking bronze model of a Red-billed Hornbill, showing a hornbill with head and long tail raised, perched on a pyramidal base, patinated with a brownish beak, pale grey breast and front section of the wings with darker grey wing tips and tail. Edition size: 12. Signed ‘Dashwood AC’. English, 2000.
Published: Geoffrey Dashwood Sculptor, Sladmore Gallery...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary English Animal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
A large Art Deco silver mounted tortoiseshell easel mirror
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A large Art Deco silver mounted tortoiseshell easel mirror, the rectangular plate framed in tortoiseshell with large silver mounts applied to the corners comprising athemions with sq...
Category
Vintage 1910s English Art Deco Table Mirrors
Materials
Silver
A small oval tortoiseshell piqué patch pot
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A small oval tortoiseshell piqué patch pot, the hinged lid with a beribboned garland of flowers round a blank escutcheon, raised on four ogee feet....
Category
Early 20th Century English Decorative Boxes
Materials
Tortoise Shell
A Louis Philippe bronze and ormolu desk set
By Louis Philippe
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A Louis Philippe bronze and ormolu desk set, comprising two ink wells and a powder shaker in the form of crenelated urns with anthemion-bud finia...
Category
Antique 1840s French Desk Sets
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
A large Edwardian shaped rectangular silver and tortoiseshell piqué box
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A large Edwardian shaped rectangular silver and tortoiseshell piqué box, the hinged lid with a dainty basket suspended from a bow with long ribbons entwined with flowering tendrils, ...
Category
Antique Early 1900s English Edwardian Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
A Regency tortoiseshell and ivory desk set
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A Regency tortoiseshell and ivory desk set, of shaped rectangular form with two glass inkwells, an ivory pot and two ivory pen holders above a curved pen tra...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English Regency Desk Sets
Materials
Ivory, Tortoise Shell
An original portrait drawing by Sir Stanley Spencer of Daphne Spencer, his niece
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
An original portrait drawing by Sir Stanley Spencer of Daphne Spencer, his niece (and reputedly his lover), finely drawn with the sitter looking slightly to the right, pencil on car...
Category
20th Century English Drawings
Materials
Paper
A William mahogany bench seat
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A William mahogany bench seat, of long rectangular form, the long seat with an S scroll arm at either end, carved with feathery acanthus leaves on t...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Furniture
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
‘The Forest Road, Boldrewood, Hampshire’ by Montague Dawson
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
‘The Forest Road, Boldrewood, Hampshire’ by Montague Dawson, oil on canvas, showing a road winding past a stand of tall conifers. Signed, framed and glazed, a paper label on the rev...
Category
Vintage 1950s English Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
A fine model of sailing ship Vimiera built for Duncan Dunbar, 1851
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
This wooden model is painted in both light and dark grey with a white gunport band and faux gunports, a golden lion figurehead and the name Vimiera in applied gold lettering on the b...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Nautical Objects
Materials
Wood, Mahogany
‘The Ark
the Dove off the Scillies with Lord Baltimore aboard’ Montague Dawson
By Montague Dawson
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
‘The Ark and the Dove off the Scillies with Lord Baltimore aboard’ by Montague Dawson, reputedly a commission for the White House, oil on board, showing the two ships of Cecilius Ca...
Category
Vintage 1960s English Paintings
Materials
Paint
A late Regency Rosewood stool
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A late Regency Rosewood stool, of long rectangular form, the turned tapering legs terminating in the original brass castors, reupholstered in d...
Category
Antique 1810s English Regency Stools
Materials
Leather, Rosewood
An unusual George IV specimen marble backgammon table attributed to Gillows
By Gillows of Lancaster
London
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
An unusual George IV specimen marble backgammon table attributed to Gillows. This rectangular table is strongly attributed to Gillows. It has a rectangular top inlaid with a central chess board flanked by two backgammon fields, all inlaid with a multitude of specimen marbles. One edge carved and gilded with the Latin motto ‘Turpe est in patria vivere et patriam ignorare’. The oak base has a drawer for cards and playing pieces, all raised on a square section support with four splayed legs and the original brass castors. English, circa 1830.
Provenance: Geoffrey Bennison Ltd, London, November 1983
The Mermaid House Collection, St. John’s Wood, London
Property of a gentleman
Private American collection
The form of the base of this table is related to several known Gillows commissions from the late Regency period and the quality of the cabinet work also suggests that firm attribution to the firm. Backgammon tables, rather than more general games tables, are unusual at this date and the use of inlaid specimen marbles in the top suggests a client of wealth. Additionally, the Latin text on the edge of the table provides further clues. The text, Turpe est in patria vivere et patriam ignorare, translates as “it is shameful to live in your homeland and not know it”. This phrase dates back to antiquity but rose to prominence once again in the mid-18th century when used by the botanist and key Enlightenment figure Carl Linnaeus in his work on the native flora of Sweden. The combination of this phrase and the use of native English timbers and marbles is promoting English raw materials and craftsmanship at a time when the noble and the wealthy were focussed on European pietra dura tables.
Mermaid House in St John’s Wood was re-designed by Chester Jones...
Category
Antique 1830s English George IV Game Tables
Materials
Marble
A Black Forest carved wood inkwell with wheat sheafs and poultry
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A Black Forest carved wood inkwell with wheat sheafs and poultry, made of ebonised fruitwood naturalistically carved with a cockerel and hen perched on a rocky outcrop, bundles of wh...
Category
Antique 1890s Swiss Black Forest Inkwells
Materials
Wood
A Victorian blue leather oak library chair
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A Victorian blue leather oak library chair, the arched back continuous with the scroll arms, and carved with beribboned foliate sprays in the centre, the shaped seat rail set above t...
Category
Antique 1860s English Victorian Chairs
Materials
Leather, Oak
A pair of Egyptian porphyry and bronze candelabra after Charles-Antoine Bridan
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A pair of Egyptian porphyry and bronze candelabra after Charles-Antoine Bridan, each comprising a bronze figure and two candle branches set on a cylindrical porphyry base with ormolu...
Category
Antique 1840s French Candle Lamps
Materials
Bronze
A Grand Tour specimen marble table top with an English specimen wood base
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A Grand Tour specimen marble table top with an English specimen wood base, the circular top inlaid with a flowerhead pattern in an extensive ...
Category
Antique 1850s English Side Tables
Materials
Marble
An equestrian bronze of the Duke of Wellington by Edward Baily, 1844
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
This bronze statuette shows Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington riding his warhorse Copenhagen. He is dressed in civilian clothes with the reins in one hand and his top hat in the ...
Category
Antique 1840s English Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
An Anglo-Chinese padouk metamorphic architect’s table
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
An Anglo-Chinese padouk metamorphic architect’s table, this apparently simple table is an infinitely versatile desk. The rectangular top has a moulded edge. It opens to create a la...
Category
Antique 1780s English Tables
Materials
Padouk
The ‘Entente Cordial’ champagne cooler for the British Motor Boat Club, 1905
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
The ‘Entente Cordial’ silver champagne cooler for the British Motor Boat Club, 1905. This deep cylindrical bowl by Charles Townley and John Thomas is of heavy gauge with a raised circular foot, two acanthus scroll handles and cut-card acanthus leaves around the base. The inscription on the silver reads ‘The “Entente Cordial” Cup Presented to the British Motor Boat Club by Mrs Walker Munroe, 1905, won by 1905 Aug 7 “Napier II” J. Scott Montagu, Lionel de Rothschild, 1906 Aug 6 ‘Yarrow Napier’ Lionel de Rothschild.’ Assayed for Charles Townley and John Thomas, London 1904, retailed by F B Thomas & Co.
Provenance: Lionel de Rothschild, Exbury and J Scott Montagu, 2nd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu
Edmund de Rothschild, Exbury.
The ‘Entente Cordiale Cup’ was the prize at the club’s race meeting at Burnham on Crouch in August 1905 in honour of a visit from the French Navy. Lionel and John had great success in the new Napier II and Achillée millefeuille Napier motor boats. The Napier II was fitted with the largest six-cylinder engine ever built by Selwyn Edge. In 1905 the pair won a 35 mile race across the Arcachon basin, France, in a time of 2 hours, 2 minutes, 26 seconds. The following year they broke Dorothy Levitt’s world water speed record at 28.8 knots and in 1907 won the prestigious ‘Perla del Mediterraneo’ on Lionel’s boat, the ‘Flying Fish’. Selwyn Francis Edge (1868–1940) was a British entrepreneur who successfully became ‘a motor car, cycle, launch, and flying machine manufacturer’. He built and raced de Dion...
Category
Antique Early 1900s English Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
An Anglo-Indian teak carving of Arthur Wellesley Circa 1803
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
This naïve likeness is carved from a solid teak block. The head has deep set eyes and a distinctive beaked nose. He is wearing a tailcoat with seven rows of frogging and tasselled ...
Category
Antique Early 1800s Indian Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Teak
A nest of five Regency specimen wood tables attributed to Gillows
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A nest of five Regency specimen wood tables attributed to Gillows, each of rectangular form with solid rosewood frame and finely turned legs joined by paired spindles, each top compr...
Category
Antique 1810s English Regency Nesting Tables and Stacking Tables
Materials
Wood
A Regency extending dining table by Morgan
Sanders, suppliers to Lord Nelson
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
This large mahogany imperial action dining table has rounded ends each housing the telescopic action that extends the table to varying lengths, three extra leaves and eight brass clips. It is supported on six turned tapering and reeded legs with brass caps and castors, each end with large brass handle engraved ‘Patent Morgan & Sanders Inventors & Manufacturers, 16 & 17 Catherine Street Strand London‘. English, circa 1815.
Height: 28¾ in (73 cm) Length closed: 74in (188 cm) Extended 13ft 4in (406 cm)
Width: 59½ in (151 cm)
Literature: Nicholas A. Brawer, British Campaign Furniture – Elegance under Canvas, 1740-1914, New York, 2001, pp.192-193, pls.D50-D52 for a very similar dining table.
Morgan & Sanders was established in 1800 by Thomas Morgan & Joseph Sanders, both of whom had worked for the cabinetmaker Thomas Butler at 13–14 Catherine Street, London. Initially, they produced campaign furniture, that is, furniture which could be easily knocked down and packed fairly flat, for the use of officers in military service. The Napoleonic War required an ever-expanding British Army and Navy, thus also increasing the demand for all types of campaign furniture, from collapsible beds...
Category
Antique 1810s English Regency Dining Room Tables
Materials
Mahogany
An unusual slate topped parcel gilt walnut table by William Turner
Son
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
An unusual slate topped parcel gilt walnut table by William Turner & Son, the circular top painted reddish-brown with a delicate spray of naturalistic garden flowers in the centre, s...
Category
Antique 1860s English Side Tables
Materials
Walnut, Giltwood
A circular Derbyshire Black Marble pietra dura table, attributed to Tomlinson
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A circular Derbyshire Black Marble pietra dura table, attributed to Tomlinson. the circular top is inlaid in pietra dura with three deli...
Category
Antique 1850s English Tables
Materials
Marble
A bronze portrait of Sir Winston Churchill by Rufus Martin, 2023
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A bronze portrait of Sir Winston Churchill by Rufus Martin, 2023 This head and shoulders bronze bust is instantly recognizable as Sir Winston Churchill. He is wearing a British Warm greatcoat with epaulettes and has a half-smoked cigar in the left hand resting on his hip. His right hand is raised in his trade mark V-for-Victory salute. Signed ‘Rufus Martin 1/12’.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 –1965) was a British politician, army officer and writer. He was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, when he led Britain to victory in the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill represented five constituencies during his career as a Member of Parliament. Ideologically an economic liberal and imperialist, for most of his career he was a member of the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955, but from 1904 to 1924 was a member of the Liberal Party. This portrait of Churchill by Rufus Martin is striking for its juxtaposition of this famous historical subject and the free and contemporary choice of presentation. Churchill’s tenure during the Second World War infused the nation with calm and confidence, providing the British people with strong leadership during its darkest hours. Martin succeeds in portraying Churchill’s unshakeable belief in a successful outcome for the Allies through his defiant stance, unwavering gaze and Victory V gesture. Together with the recognizable “Bulldog” facial features and broad shoulders, this bust captures the subject in terms of character as well as being an accurate physical portrait .
Rufus Martin trained at Wimbledon College of the Arts, London, though his aptitude for 3D design and sculpture was apparent from a very young age. His mother, a portrait painter, showed him the portrait sculptures of Augusta Savage, Jacob Epstein and Augustine Rodin, which inspired him to create a bust of his late mentor, Michael Howells. He sculpts ‘intriguing individuals, always hoping to capture some element of their past or current struggles and to create something for the good of the community they inhabit and wherever possible for posterity’ – an ambition he has most successfully fulfilled with this powerful portrait.
After leaving college in 2017, with first class honours, Martin has won many prestigious prizes including the Tiranti Prize at the FACE, the Signature Art Award, the Chelsea Arts Club show for ‘Amy’, the True Blue Show, the Salmagundi Open Show, New York, Green & Stone Summer Show, the Chelsea Arts Society Summer Show, RBA Rising Stars, the Royal Cambrian Academy Open, the
Binny Mathews & Sons joint show, The Next Big Thing and has been published in the Kings House...
Category
2010s English Busts
Materials
Bronze
The New York Yacht Club Regatta ewer by Tiffany won by sloop Gracie, 1872
By Tiffany
Co.
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
The New York Yacht Club Regatta ewer by Tiffany won by sloop Gracie, 1872. This large sterling silver ewer, based on the ancient Greek Oenochoe form of wine jug, has a bulbous body a...
Category
Antique 1870s American Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
An impressive silver gilt Lyme Regis
Charmouth Regatta Cup for 1846 presented
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
An impressive silver gilt Lyme Regis & Charmouth Regatta Cup for 1846 presented by John Attwood M.P. made by Hunt and Roskell, in the form of a classical f...
Category
Antique 1840s English Nautical Objects
Materials
Silver
A carved fire surround from Sir Winston Churchill’s drawing room
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A carved fire surround from Sir Winston Churchill’s drawing room. This carved pine fire surround combines elements of both Rococo and Palladian designs. It has a shaped cornice abov...
Category
Vintage 1910s English Fireplaces and Mantels
Materials
Pine
A silver presentation bowl by Mappin and Webb presented to Lionel de Rothschild
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A silver presentation bowl by Mappin and Webb presented to Lionel de Rothschild, 1912. This wide two handled cup by Mappin and Webb was created as a gift for Lionel de Rothschild as ...
Category
Vintage 1910s English Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
A silver goblet presented to Captain W. G. Hackstaff, 1830
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
This flared silver cup has a border of repoussé scrolls and foliage on the lower bulb of the goblet and around the foot. The full inscription is written below. Partially assayed fo...
Category
Antique 1830s English Sterling Silver
Materials
Silver
An oak inkwell carved from Lutine timber, dated 1799
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
This large and historically interesting inkwell, or standish, is carved from timber recovered from the wreck of H.M.S. Lutine. It has a central inkwell, with a bud and oakleaf cover...
Category
Antique 1860s English Nautical Objects
Materials
Oak
Royal Sailing Yacht Britannia’s 76 inches burgee of the Royal Corinthian Yacht C
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
This large triangular racing burgee is made from pieced wool bunting with machine stitching with three vertical red, white and red stripes. The white stripe showing a blue shield with a white star and crescent moon motif below a royal crown. The leading edge is inscribed in black ink ‘R. Portsmouth Corin n/t’. It is accompanied by a copy of a black edged letter on Buckingham Palace writing paper dated 10th July 1936 saying ‘Dear Sir, I am commanded by the King and Queen Mary to send you these flags which were flown on board “Britannia” at various times during her career, including one of her racing flags. Their Majesties hope you will like to keep these in your club house as souvenirs of the old yacht. Yours Derek Keppell, Master of the Household, The Commodore, Royal Portsmouth Corinthian Yacht Club.” It is offered with a Royal Portsmouth Corinthian Yacht Club printed silk racing programme for the Sixth Regatta in Osborne Bay, 1883, with a gold fringe and a button attached with a red seal to a tag stating ‘Seabed Pattern Button Corinthian Yacht Club, jacket and vest, 1880’, in an envelope ‘On H.M. Service’ addressed to ‘General His Serene Highness, Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, Commodore of the Corinthian Yacht Club, Government House...
Category
Vintage 1930s English Nautical Objects
Materials
Textile
An outstanding and important Regency writing table by William Jamar
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
This outstanding and important writing table has a rectangular top above two cedar-lined frieze drawers. It is raised on rectangular section flared end supports with parcel gilt and ebonised scroll spandrels and feet joined by a flat brass inlaid stretcher. The decoration comprises superb quality amboyna, ebony and calamander veneers. The top has a central amboyna field within a Boulle work border of inlaid ormolu foliate sprays, while the sides have further amboyna panels within ormolu stringing and calamander crossbanding. With a copy of the invoice stating it was from the Wellington Collection and probably sold by the 8th Duke. English, circa 1815.
Height: 29¼ in (74.5cm) Width: 50¼ in (127.5cm) Depth: 26in (66 cm)
Provenance: Lord Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington, possibly 11 Titchfield St, London
Temple Williams Ltd 1963 (See the Country Life advertisement below)
Philip Duncan Ltd, sold in 1969
A distinguished American private collection
Published: M. Jourdain and R. Fastnedge Regency Furniture 1795-1830, London, 1965
p.77 fig. 179
Country Life “Summer Calendar” 1963, p.51
Lord Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington (1885-1972) was an Anglo-Irish diplomat (1908-1919) who served as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Grenadier Guards during World War II and then became an architect. His collection at 11 Titchfield Terrace was one of the first major regency furniture collections in Britain. In 1947, he gave Apsley House and its important contents (the Wellington Collection) to the nation with the proviso that he and his family were able to occupy a large portion of it. He married Dorothy Violet Ashton in 1914, daughter of Robert Ashton of Croughton. See Wick Antiques...
Category
Antique 1810s English Regency Tables
Materials
Brass
A framed plaster portrait plaque of the Glasgow Reformist MP James Oswald, signe
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A framed plaster portrait plaque of the Glasgow Reformist MP James Oswald, signed and dated Carlo Marochetti, 1842, of circular form, shown facing to the right within a black border and the original glazed giltwood frame.
Another version of this plaque is in the collection of Glasgow Museums and can be seen on the Art UK website
James Oswald (1779-1853) was a successful Glasgow merchant who later inherited various landed estates due to the early death of his cousin. Oswald was one of the first members of the Glasgow Bank when it was established in 1809. He traded largely in cotton and other raw textiles and in his spare time he commanded the Glasgow branch of the volunteer mounted Yeomanry. It was his political career however that captured the hearts of many of his countrymen and led to his eventually being immortalised in sculptural form.
The Liberal Party MP for Glasgow from 1832-1837, Oswald was a staunch opponent of Sir Robert Peel...
Category
Antique 1840s Decorative Art
Materials
Plaster
A small fine quality Meiji period cloisonné enamel vase
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A small fine quality Meiji period cloisonne enamel vase, with silver wires and gilt rims decorated with lappets of dragons of ho-ho birds on a brown ground, with textile designs arou...
Category
Antique 1880s Japanese Meiji Metalwork
Materials
Metal
A half hull model of Egyptian Coast Guard Cutter Ab-Bass by G.L.Watson, 1891
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
This fine shipyard half-hull model has a painted pink hull with a pale green waterline and white topsides with a line of portholes. There are two truncated masts, a funnel and a bow...
Category
Antique 1890s Scottish Models and Miniatures
Materials
Metal
A pair of Meiji period blue cloisonne vases
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A pair of Meiji period blue cloisonne vases, each with a peacock on a rocky outcrop surrounded by flowering peony plants on a dark blue ground, the peacocks facing each other, with s...
Category
Antique Early 1900s Japanese Metalwork
Materials
Metal
A pair of Meiji period bronze vases
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A pair of Meiji period bronze vases, decorated in high relief, one with a pheasant perched on a branch of prunus blossom and the other with two carp swimming under a bough of wisteri...
Category
Antique Early 1800s Japanese Meiji Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
$5,789 / set
A fine reverse glass silhouette of H.M.S.s Marlborough, Foudroyant and Lee
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
This reverse glass painting shows the silhouettes of three British naval ships of the line within a ropework border, their outlines inside the glass casting shadows on the cream grou...
Category
Antique 1860s English Nautical Objects
Materials
Glass
An important porcelain cup and saucer from Admiral Lord Nelson’s ‘Baltic Service
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
Both pieces are delicately painted in underglaze blues and greens with over glaze hand gilding. Each has a border of oak leaves and gilded acorns, a central fouled anchor within a v...
Category
Antique Early 1800s English Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Antique English Naval Cannon
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
Pair of antique English naval cannon each with a tapering three stage barrel flanked by plain trunnions, with a knob shaped cascabel button before a shaped rectangular raised vent and ending in a 3 1/2” bore muzzle, enclosing a removable conforming wood plug, circa 1800.
Stood upon a naval type bronze-mounted four wheeled wooden carriage, including its wedge shaped quoin with knob handle.
The Earls of Lonsdale, Lowther Castle, Cumbria, presumably by descent to Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale (1857-1944), until sold by his heir and brother, Lancelot, 6th Earl, as part of the contents of Lowther Castle, Maple & Co. Ltd./Thomas Wyatt, Tuesday 14 April 1947 and two following days, lot 558: ‘A pair of Old Gun Metal Cannons on teakwood carriages, 3ft. 6in. long’.
Mrs. P.M. Adie-Shepherd, sold Christie’s, London, 29 May 1970, lot 96.
Lowther Castle is a castellated mansion built by Robert Smirke between 1806 and 1814 for William Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale (1757-1844). It was constructed on the foundations of the former 17th century family seat, Lowther Hall, but it was only in the early 19th century that it was afforded the name ‘castle’ in keeping with the Europe-wide fashion for romanticism and which was promoted by influential characters such as William Beckford at Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire in England and by the writer Sir Walter Scott at Abbotsford, Roxburghshire, Scotland. While it’s not known when these naval cannon were acquired for Lowther they would have been entirely fitting in the castle or its approaches and it’s likely that they were in place soon after the castle was completed, or perhaps acquired later by the 5th Earl. A tantalising possibility is that the cannon were originally aboard the East Indiaman Lowther Castle which was active in the early 19th century.
HUGH CECIL LONSDALE, 5TH EARL OF LONSDALE (1857-1944) AND THE DEMISE OF LOWTHER CASTLE
In 1882 at the age of 25 Hugh Lonsdale (1857-1944) unexpectedly inherited the earldom and with it the extensive Lonsdale estate, including tens of thousands of acres of Cumberland and Westmorland and coalfields at Whitehaven. However, despite his spectacular inherited wealth – he was suddenly one of the wealthiest men in England, over the course of his lifetime he managed to decimate the family fortune. He led a full and colourful life, one of adventure and luxury. An early intrepid escapade took place in July 1888 when, as part of an expedition called the Scotch Naturalist Society, he set embarked on horse sleigh...
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Antique Early 1800s English Arms, Armor and Weapons
Materials
Bronze
$181,949 / set
A most unusual silver and gold leaf cloisonné vase by Sukiku, 1981
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A most unusual silver and gold leaf cloisonné vase by Sukiku, 1981, the ovoid body decorated in abstract designs with wispy silver shapes and moriage gold leaf scattered over a mottl...
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Vintage 1980s Japanese Metalwork
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Metal, Gold, Silver
A Showa period lacquered metal vase
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A Showa period lacquered metal vase, decorated with one silvered and one gilt carp on a planished ground, signed. Japanese, c1930.
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Vintage 1930s Japanese Showa Metalwork
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Metal
The Luska Bay Regatta Challenge Cup won by Surprise, 1878
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
This ornate repoussé silver trophy is in the form of a handled cup with an everted rim and tripod dolphin base. The high relief decoration comprises three gaff rigged yachts racing,...
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Antique 1870s English Sports Equipment and Memorabilia
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Silver
A Regency mahogany library reading chair
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A Regency mahogany library reading chair, of rectangular form with slatted back and sides, with two deep buttoned cushions and padded elbow rests re-upho...
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Antique 1810s English Regency Chairs
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Leather, Mahogany
