LATE 17TH CENTURY

Details

An English wallet
Late 17th century
Worked in gold, silver and brightly coloured silks with a gentleman with his dog hunting a stag, on a ground of hillocks with flowering trees, the verso with the arms of the 1st Earl of Yarmouth and motto, 'Le mieux je penser', and with a shepherd, sheep and squirrels, hillocks and flowering tree, lined with pink silk with notebook and with plaited tie, containing a slip of paper with a fragment of garter of blue silk embroidered in silver 'Honi Soit', the paper inscribed 'King James's Garter I touch and God cures' (slight wear)
the wallet -- 3 x 5in. (8 x 12.6cm.), the garter fragment -- x 4in. (2 x 10cm.)

Provenance

William Paston (1652-1732), 2nd Earl of Yarmouth, Treasurer of the Household 1686-1689 to King James II

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

The ancient habit of touching the King's Evil continued into the 18th century. The most famous beneficiary was Dr. Johnson who was 'touched' by Queen Anne.

Another from the small group of notable 17th century purses is the 'Penn' purse, sold Christie's South Kensington, 23 June 1987, lot 72, (£50,000, excluding premium). Worked with the arms of the Admiral Sir William Penn, father of the founder of Pennsylvania and with a portrait of Penn beside a globe.

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