Lot Essay
The arms are those of Butler enclosed by the Order of St. Patrick accole with the same arms with those of Price-Clarke on an escutcheon of pretence, for Walter Butler, 18th Earl of Ormonde, born in 1770. He married in 1805 Anna Maria Catherine, heiress to her brother, Godfrey T.R. Price-Clarke and only daughter and heiress of Job Hart Price-Clarke of Sutton Hall, Derbyshire.
In 1811 he was granted by Parliament 16,000 in exchange for the resumption by the Crown of the hereditary presage of wines granted to the Butler family in 1327. Barrington in his Personal Sketches described him thus: "As engaging a person, as many manly qualities, an to the full as much intellect promise, as any young man of his country", but these were "either blunted by dissipation or absorbed in the licentious influence of a fashionable connection" (vol. I, pp. 222-227).
This soup tureen is one of a pair; the other was sold in these Rooms, October 21, 1993, lot 405, and the following lot was a pair of wine coolers from the same service. Another similar tureen from the same service was also sold in these Rooms, April 18, 1989, lot 428. Other pieces from the Ormonde service are in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Brighton Pavilion, and Bowes Castle Museum, Northumberland.
In 1811 he was granted by Parliament 16,000 in exchange for the resumption by the Crown of the hereditary presage of wines granted to the Butler family in 1327. Barrington in his Personal Sketches described him thus: "As engaging a person, as many manly qualities, an to the full as much intellect promise, as any young man of his country", but these were "either blunted by dissipation or absorbed in the licentious influence of a fashionable connection" (vol. I, pp. 222-227).
This soup tureen is one of a pair; the other was sold in these Rooms, October 21, 1993, lot 405, and the following lot was a pair of wine coolers from the same service. Another similar tureen from the same service was also sold in these Rooms, April 18, 1989, lot 428. Other pieces from the Ormonde service are in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Brighton Pavilion, and Bowes Castle Museum, Northumberland.