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FINE JEWELLERY, SILVER, WATCHES AND LUXURY ACCESSORIES DONNINGTON PRIORY | WEDNESDAY 7 JULY 2021 FINE JEWELLERY, SILVER, WATCHES AND LUXURY ACCESSORIES DONNINGTON PRIORY | WEDNESDAY 7 JULY 2021 | 10.30am AUCTION FORMAT: LIVE ONLINE AUCTION NO. 14307 This is a live online auction with an auctioneer. Bidding is available online, by telephone or commission (absentee) bids. If not bidding online, please contact SPECIALISTS: Dreweatts to register all commission bids or telephone bids by 12 noon BST on James Nicholson FGA, DGA Tuesday 6 July. Nick Mann Tessa Parry FGA, DGA FREE ONLINE BIDDING IS AVAILABLE AT DREWEATTS.COM: Ian Pickford (Consultant, Silver) The Dreweatts’ bidding platform allows you to watch, listen and bid with no Terry Taylor MBHI (Consultant, Watches) additional online bidding fees applicable. VIEWING: REGISTRATION: Viewing will be available by appointment only and in strict accordance with We advise clients to register at least 48 hours in advance of the auction as you government Covid-19 regulations. may be asked to provide documents to verify your identity. Registration for new clients will close at 12 noon BST on Tuesday 6 July. VIEWING IN LONDON: (Jewellery & Watches only): BUYER’S PREMIUM: 16-17 Pall Mall Buyer’s premium is charged per lot at 25% of the hammer price (30% including St James’s VAT) up to and including £500,000, 20% (24% including VAT) of the hammer London SW1Y 5LU price from £500,001 up to and including £1,000,000, and 12% of the hammer price (14.4% including VAT) in excess of £1,000,001. Tuesday 29 June: 11am – 4.30pm Wednesday 30 June: 11am – 4.30pm PAYMENT: Please note, we cannot accept payment by telephone for lots bought by first VIEWING AT DONNINGTON PRIORY (full sale): time bidders. For details on other payment methods, please see our website. 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Dreweatts Front cover: Lot 166 Donnington Priory Inside front cover: Lots 186 | 175 | 149 Newbury Page 1: Lot 74 Berkshire RG14 2JE Page 2: Lot 273 ENQUIRIES: Back cover: Lot 258 +44 (0) 1635 553 553 [email protected] dreweatts.com Catalogues £15 (£17.50 by post) 3 or 7 Fine Silver Fine British Silver 1 A Commonwealth or Charles II silver straight-tapered tankard by Anthony Ficketts, London 1659 up to 12th July 1660, the flat cover with a bifurcated kidney thumbpiece, the S-scroll handle with a shield terminal, on a moulded foot, engraved with a later mantled shield, 16cm (6 1/4in) high, 762g (24.5 oz) Following the beheading of Charles I in 1649, under the English Interregnum or Commonwealth the country was a de facto republic led by Oliver Cromwell. Cromwell defeated Charles II at the Battle of Worcester on 3rd September 1651, and Charles fled to mainland Europe. Charles spent the next nine years in exile in France, the Dutch Republic and the Spanish Netherlands. The political crisis that followed Cromwell’s death in 1658 resulted in the restoration of the monarchy, and Charles was invited to return to Britain. On 29th May 1660, his 30th birthday, he was received in London to public acclaim. See Mitchell, David M. ‘Silversmiths in Elizabethan and Stuart London’ Woodbridge 2017, p. 215ff for this maker’s mark, a biography and full attribution to Anthony Ficketts. The blazon: argent, a chevron gules between three maunches azure. The nearest match being STAFFERTON (variant of STAWTON) of Berkshire. The listed blazon for these arms is: argent, a chevron sable between three maunches azure. £5,000-7,000 6 www.dreweatts.com | +44 (0) 1635 553 553 Buyer’s Premium of 25% +VAT 7 4 A George II spherical sponge box by Henry Morris, London 1744, the cover pierced with trellis lozenges, scrolls and foliage, moulded rims, on a circular pedestal base, 10cm (4in) high, 195g (6.25 oz) £300-500 4 2 2 5 A set of four George II silver shaped oval salts by David Hennell I, London 1738, the everted rims with chased foliate, shell and scroll borders, A pair of George II silver oval pedestal sauce engraved with a crest beneath and on four foliate pad feet, 13cm (5in) long, 863g (27.75 oz) boats by George Methuen, London 1746, with leaf-capped scroll handles, scroll moulded The crest belongs to Richard WINFIELD (1697-1751), 1st Viscount Powerscourt of Powerscourt, co. Wicklow, created in 1744 for the third occasion, rims, the bases moulded and of shaped oval of the Irish Peerage. Richard WINGFIELD was the son of Edward WINGFIELD, an Irish politician, by his wife Eleanor GORE, daughter of Sir Arthur outline, engraved with a motto Essayez above GORE, 1st Baronet. In 1727 he married Dorothy Beresford ROWLEY. He was succeeded by two of his sons from the marriage: Edward WINGFIELD a crest, 21cm (8 1/4in) long, 1087g (34.95 oz) (1729-1764), 2nd Viscount and Richard WINGFIELD (1730-1788), 3rd Viscount. Richard WINGFIELD was responsible for commissioning the German architect, Richard Cassels, to carry out extensive remodelling work on Powerscourt House between 1731 and 1741. Powerscourt House remains the Provenance: Property of a Gentleman. The seat of the family . motto and crest for DUNDAS. £1,000-1,500 5 £800-1,200 6 A pair of George II silver shaped circular waiters, maker’s mark TG (unregistered), 3 London 1749, the raised cast border with A Queen Anne Scottish silver straight-tapered tankard by James openwork fruiting vine, bacchic masks and Mitchellsone, Edinburgh 1712, assay master Edward Penman, with an shells, on cast grape and leopard head feet, acorn finial to the double domed cover, an S-scroll handle, a moulded engraved with a monogram HF to three girdle and foot, engraved with a quartered coat-of-arms, a shield verso, centres, scratch weight ‘pr 26=6’ beneath, 22cm (8 3/4in) high, 987g (31.75 oz) 18cm (7in) diameter, 783g (25.2 oz) The coat-of-arms for DOUGLAS quartering MAR for William, 2nd Earl Provenance: Property of a Gentleman. of March (1696-1731). He succeeded his father in 1705 and married Anne See Grimwade 3826 for the maker’s mark Hamilton, Countess of Ruglen (born 5th April 1698). The opposing shield attributed by him possibly to Thomas Gilpin. is for GARVEY. See also 2759 for the mark of Thomas Gilpin with a similar twin handled cup above the 6 £2,000-3,000 letters. £600-800 3 8 www.dreweatts.com | +44 (0) 1635 553 553 Buyer’s Premium of 25% +VAT 9 7 A late George II silver oval soup tureen and cover by Aymé Videau, London 1754, with a bee skep and calyx finial to the moulded domed cover, the base with twin leaf-capped handles, a gadrooned rim and on four bold shell, scroll and rocaille feet, engraved with an armorial and a crest, 41.5cm (16in) across handles, 3395g (109.1 oz) £4,000-6,000 10 www.dreweatts.com | +44 (0) 1635 553 553 Buyer’s Premium of 25% +VAT 11 8 A set of four George I or II Irish silver cauldron salt cellars by John Hamilton, Dublin, maker’s marks only, first half 18th 8 century, plain, each on three paw feet, scratch weights beneath, engraved with a crest beneath a coronet, 8.3cm (3 1/4in) diameter; and four later fiddle pattern salt spoons, 618g (19.85 oz), with blue glass liners 10 The crest for NUGENT, earls of Westmeath. 10 Hamilton entered this mark in 1720 and has A George III Irish silver oval salver, maker’s mark JL, Dublin last quarter 18th century, with a beaded, pierced and engraved rim, engraved with a floral been recorded up to 1747. swag band, a crest and a shield within swags and pendants, on four anthemion bracket feet, 24.5cm (9 1/2in) long, 330g (10.6 oz) £500-800 The maker’s maker attribution is uncertain and could be John Laughlin, Junior; John Lloyd, Senior or John Locker. The arms belong to Richard O’FARRELL Esqr. (1729-1790), who in 1751 married the heiress Letitia O’MORE only surviving daughter of James O’MORE (died 1779) of Balyna Co. Kildare and Mary nee MADDEN. After their marriage the family adopted the family name MORE-O’FARRELL. One of the issues in identification is that the arms of Richard O’FARRELL use the crest of the O’MORE family in preference to their own crest, which is blazoned: issuant from ducal coronet a greyhound courant. The item may as a result may be intended for use by Mary O’FARRELL nee O’MORE. Her father James O’MORE was the last male descendant of the family to use the O’MO(O)RE name. The O’MORE family are the last descendants of the Lord Leix. They are an ancient family of Ireland and substantial landowners, notably descendants of the family as MORE-O’FARRELL held the Balyna estate until 1960. The family were identified as being associated with the 1641 Irish Rebellion. The O’FARRELL or O’FERRALL family are also an ancient family of Ireland who arrived from Spain during the 4th century BC. £200-300 11 A mid 18th century Irish twin handled cup, maker’s mark RC, possibly Robert Calderwood, Dublin, with a slightly everted rim, leaf-capped S-scroll handles, a chased vacant asymmetric reserve above leaf and shell lower body, on a domed foot with a scroll and grape band, 9 18cm (7in) high, 1284g (41.25 oz) 9 A mid 18th century Irish silver bowl, maker’s mark SW, possibly Stephen Walsh, with a slightly everted rim engraved with a coronet above a crest £800-1,200 within a foliate and C-scroll asymmetric reserve, on a circular moulded spreading foot, 18cm (7in) diameter, 496g (15.95 oz) The crest and coronet for NUGENT, earls of Westmeath.