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Montpelier Street, London I 29 September 2020 Montpelier Street, Fine Glass and British Ceramics Fine Glass and British Ceramics I Montpelier Street, London I 29 September 2020 26314 Fine Glass and British Ceramics Montpelier Street, London | Tuesday 29 September 2020 at 10.30am VIEWING BY APPOINTMENT ENQUIRIES CUSTOMER SERVICES REGISTRATION Sunday 27 September Head of Department Monday to Friday 8.30am to 6pm IMPORTANT NOTICE 11am to 3pm Fergus Gambon +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Please note that all customers, Monday 28 September +44 (0) 20 7468 8245 irrespective of any previous activity 9am to 4.30pm [email protected] Please see page 2 for bidder with Bonhams, are required to Please contact the department information including after-sale complete the Bidder Registration to arrange an appointment. Specialist collection and shipment Form in advance of the sale. The Dr Jim Peake form can be found at the back of SALE NUMBER +44 (0) 20 7468 8244 IMPORTANT INFORMATION every catalogue and on our 26314 [email protected] The United States Government website at www.bonhams.com has banned the import of ivory and should be returned by email or post to the specialist department CATALOGUE Cataloguer into the USA. Lots containing or to the bids department at Anna Burnside ivory are indicated by the symbol £25.00 [email protected] +44 (0) 20 7468 8246 Ф printed beside the lot number [email protected] in this catalogue. BIDS To bid live online and / or +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 leave internet bids please go to Senior Consultant +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax www.bonhams.com/auctions/26314 To bid via the internet please John Sandon and click on the Register to bid link visit bonhams.com at the top left of the page. General Enquiries Please note that telephone [email protected] bidding is only available on [email protected] lots with the low estimate in excess of £500. 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Live online bidding is available for this sale Please email bids@bonhams. com with ‘live bidding’ in the subject line 48 hours before the auction to register for this service Bonhams 1793 Limited Registered No. 4326560 Registered Office: Montpelier Galleries Montpelier Street, London SW7 1HH +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax Sale Information BIDS AFTER SALE CITES REGULATIONS PHYSICAL CONDITION OF +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Sold lots will remain in the Please be aware that all Lots LOTS IN THIS AUCTION +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax Collections room at Bonhams marked with the symbol Y are Please note that damage, [email protected] Knightsbridge for a period of subject to CITES requlations restoration and other www.bonhams.com not less than 14 days from the when exporting these items imperfections are not mentioned sale date Tuesday 29 outside the EU. The regulations in this catalogue. 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For further VAT information please contact: [email protected] Early Glass from the Collection of Lady Maria Elisabeth ‘Lili’ Cartwright This extraordinary collection reflects the taste of a lady who appreciated early Venetian and façon de Venise glass long before the Rothschilds and other celebrated collectors of such early glass. The unpublished pieces forming the collection are exceptional in that they were acquired in the 19th century, some as early as the 1820s, and have passes down through the family. Lady Maria Elisabeth Augusta Cartwright, née von Sandizell (1805- 1902), was the eldest daughter of Count Thomas von Sandizell, a Bavarian nobleman. She was brought up at the family home of Schloss Sandizell and educated at the Maison Royale, a boarding school for daughters of the nobility. ‘Lili’, as she was known, met the English diplomat Sir Thomas Cartwright (1795-1850), then Secretary to the English Legation in Munich, during the Munich Carnival in 1824. They married in the Bishop’s Chapel at Augsburg later that year and spent their first few years together in Munich, during which time their first son, William Cornwallis Cartwright (1825-1915), was born. Lili lived much of her early life abroad and it was not until 1828 that she visited the Cartwright ancestral home at Aynhoe Park near Banbury in Oxfordshire for the first time. Her second visit lasted several months over Christmas and the New Year 1834-35, when she began to paint watercolours of the interior and exterior of the house in her spare time. She spent the next ten years leading the life of a diplomat’s wife abroad, firstly in Frankfurt and latterly in Sweden. She was only able to make two short visits to England during this time but visited her own family home at Schloss Sandizell as often as she could and spent much time in and around the Bavarian Court of Portrait of Lady Elisabeth ‘Lili’ Cartwright aged 18, King Maximillian and the Swedish Court of King Oscar. Her third visit by Z Grunbaumin, Munich 1834. to Aynhoe lasted several years over 1845-47, during which time she continued to paint pictures of the house. Many of her watercolours are reproduced by Elizabeth Cartwright-Hignett, Lili at Aynhoe (1989). Mrs Cartwright’s Sitting Room at Aynhoe Park, 25 February 1835 The Salon at Aynhoe Park, December 1834 The Salon at Aynhoe Park, 5 November 1845 Lili had begun to collect glass and porcelain early on during her William Cornwallis did not return to Aynhoe Park until he became time in Munich in the 1820s, and records in her diary many of her the Liberal Member of Parliament for Oxfordshire, a position which expeditions to auctions and dealers. She was given several porcelain he held between 1868 and 1885. He lived in a nearby cottage but groups by the Queen of Bavaria who had them specially made as was only able to move back into the house itself in 1881, when he gifts for her favourites. was left a large inheritance by his cousin. A keen collector of glass himself, William added several pieces to Lili’s glass collection, a In January 1847 her father-in-law, William Ralph Cartwright (1771- number of which were purchased from the prominent Munich dealer 1847), died and her husband inherited Aynhoe Park together with A S Drey. The collection remained in the family following William’s a great legacy of debts. Just three years later, in April 1850, her death in November 1915. Much of it was displayed in the drawing husband also died, no doubt exhausted by the burden of his financial room at Aynhoe in the mid-20th century, in two cabinets which were problems and his diplomatic duties. Aynhoe passed to their eldest prone to smoulder owing to the eccentricities of the electric lighting son William Cornwallis, who let the house for most of the rest of inside. There it remained until the estate was sold in 1960. the 19th century to reduce the arrears and chose to live abroad where life was cheaper. Lili retired to Leamington Spa soon after her Bonhams is honoured to offer rare pieces of glass with this husband’s death, where she remained until her own death in April exceptional provenance from a pioneer of glass collecting, 1902, aged 97.