Lot Essay
A similar example by the same maker is illustrated in Jorunn Fossberg, Norsk SØlv: Gullsmeder Gjennom 600 AaR, 2003, p. 346.
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HAREWOOD: THE ATTIC SALE
Harewood House is justly recognised today as one of England's most splendid stately homes, it was built and furnished for Edwin Lascelles (1712-1795) between 1760 and 1780 with some of the greatest architects and craftsmen of the day engaged on the project such as John Carr, Robert Adam and Thomas Chippendale. Succeeding generations of the Lascelles family have contributed significantly to Harewood's collections and Sir Charles Barry was responsible for important changes in the 1840s. More recently, the 7th Earl of Harewood, who died in 2011, after a distinguished fifty-four year tenure, saw the transformation of the house from a private residence to one of England's most popular and most visited country houses. His generosity in establishing the Harewood House Trust as an educational charity in 1986 brought about the reinstatement of many of Chippendale's great pier tables and glasses and the restoration of his magnificent state bed, as well as the refurbishment of Barry's South Terrace - the most successful element of his work at Harewood.
The late Lord Harewood's mother, H.R.H. The Princess Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (1897-1965) was only daughter of H.M. King George V (d.1936) and of H.M. Queen Mary (d.1953). She was a connoisseur and life-long collector in her own right. It seems most probable that Queen Mary stimulated her daughter's interests in Chinese works of art, particularly jade. The Princess was very knowledgeable and had already formed a large collection by the time she and her husband moved to Harewood in 1930, where her mother and father, Queen Mary and King George V visited her. Princess Mary's arrival at Harewood did not, however, herald the first Royal visit to Harewood, as the house had been visited in 1815 by George IV when The Prince Regent (d. 1830), accompanied by his mother Queen Charlotte, and in 1835 by Queen Victoria (d.1901) when a princess, accompanied by her mother the Duchess of Kent.
The 'Attic Sale' included in this catalogue, together with the King Street sale offered on 5th December, are part of the plans for the future of the estate made after the death of the 7th Earl. Both sales contain objects primarily selected from outside Harewood's core 18th century collection and reflect layers of collecting by the Lascelles family down the generations.
A NORWEGIAN SILVER PEG TANKARD
MAKER'S MARK ONLY OF CHRISTIAN JOHANSEN KRUSE, TRONDHEIM, CIRCA 1698
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A NORWEGIAN SILVER PEG TANKARD
MAKER'S MARK ONLY OF CHRISTIAN JOHANSEN KRUSE, TRONDHEIM, CIRCA 1698
Cylindrical and on three lion's paw and ball feet below chased foliage, the cover with inset coin and engraved presentation inscription dated '1698', further engraved with a band of tulips and wildflowers, with salient crowned lion thumb-piece, the handle terminating in an escutcheon, the underside of the base with scratch-weight 'W75 Lod'; marked to underside of base
8¼ in. (20.9 cm.) high
34.8 oz. (1083 gr.)
MAKER'S MARK ONLY OF CHRISTIAN JOHANSEN KRUSE, TRONDHEIM, CIRCA 1698
Cylindrical and on three lion's paw and ball feet below chased foliage, the cover with inset coin and engraved presentation inscription dated '1698', further engraved with a band of tulips and wildflowers, with salient crowned lion thumb-piece, the handle terminating in an escutcheon, the underside of the base with scratch-weight 'W75 Lod'; marked to underside of base
8¼ in. (20.9 cm.) high
34.8 oz. (1083 gr.)
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