Lot Essay
The majority of the toilet service was purchased by Antenor Patino and remained in his collection until it was sold at Christie's, New York, 28 October 1986, lot 12.
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UNMARKED, POSSIBLY BY PAUL DE LAMERIE, MID 18TH CENTURY
Details
A George II silver-gilt table-bell from the Dorset Toilet Service
Unmarked, possibly by Paul de Lamerie, mid 18th century
With detachable baluster stem, cast and chased with scrolls, husking and foliage on a partly textured ground, with moulded rim, engraved with initial D with duke's coronet above, with plain clapper
4½in. (11.5cm.) high
9oz. (293gr.)
The initial and coronet is for the Dukes of Dorset. By family tradition the service was presented by Lionel, 1st Duke of Dorset (1688-1765) to his daughter Caroline (d.1775) on her marriage in 1742 to Joseph Damer Esq. (d.1798), later created Baron and Viscount Milton and Earl of Dorchester. On her death she is said to have bequeathed it to her brother Lord George Sackville in whose family it remained until the 20th century.
Unmarked, possibly by Paul de Lamerie, mid 18th century
With detachable baluster stem, cast and chased with scrolls, husking and foliage on a partly textured ground, with moulded rim, engraved with initial D with duke's coronet above, with plain clapper
4½in. (11.5cm.) high
9oz. (293gr.)
The initial and coronet is for the Dukes of Dorset. By family tradition the service was presented by Lionel, 1st Duke of Dorset (1688-1765) to his daughter Caroline (d.1775) on her marriage in 1742 to Joseph Damer Esq. (d.1798), later created Baron and Viscount Milton and Earl of Dorchester. On her death she is said to have bequeathed it to her brother Lord George Sackville in whose family it remained until the 20th century.
Provenance
By family tradition given to Lady Caroline Sackville (d.1775) in 1742 by her father Lionel, 1st Duke of Dorset (1688-1765), on the occasion of her marriage to Joseph Damer (d.1798) in 1742.
Bequeathed by her on her death to her brother
Lord George Sackville, later Germain (1715-1785), later Baron Bolebroke and Viscount Sackville and by descent to his grand-daughter
Caroline-Harriet (d.1908), wife of William Bruce Stopford, later Stopford Sackville, (1806-1872) of Drayton, co. Northampton and by descent
With Thomas Lumley 1959
Bequeathed by her on her death to her brother
Lord George Sackville, later Germain (1715-1785), later Baron Bolebroke and Viscount Sackville and by descent to his grand-daughter
Caroline-Harriet (d.1908), wife of William Bruce Stopford, later Stopford Sackville, (1806-1872) of Drayton, co. Northampton and by descent
With Thomas Lumley 1959
Exhibited
London, The South Kensington Museum, Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Works of Art of the Medieval, Renaissance, and More Recent Periods, on Loan at the South Kensington Museum, 1862, no. 5991, as part of a toilet service of twenty pieces.
Special notice
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