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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MR. AND MRS. ALEXANDER SAUNDERSON (LOTS 697-727)
Alexander Saunderson and his wife Louise Astor Van Alen Saunderson inherited and collected choice objects from the traditions of Anglo-Irish landed gentry and prominent Americans shopping on European grand tours. Saunderson, a captain in the Rifle Brigade, German prisoner of war during most of World War II, and aide de camp to Lord Lawrence, the British judge at the Nurenburg trials, was the last private owner of Castle Saunderson, an historic great house and estate on the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland which had been in his family for more than three centuries. It is now a Boy Scout center. Louise, who died in 1998, was the great grand-daughter of William Backhouse Astor, great niece of Frederick W. Vanderbilt. She grew up at "Wakehurst," the colossal Newport home built by her grandfather, James J. Van Alen, and furnished by him on near-constant European travels in the 1880's and 90's. It is now a central building of Salve Regina College. The Saunderson's home in Santa Barbara was furnished with treasures from Castle Saunderson and Wakehurst as well as items purchased on their own travels.
AN EDWARD VII FOOTED BOWL,
LONDON, 1905, MAKER'S MARK APPARENTLY FCW,
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AN EDWARD VII FOOTED BOWL,
LONDON, 1905, MAKER'S MARK APPARENTLY FCW,
the body lobed, engraved, "LOUGH ERNE YACHT CLUB...", marked on body
10 3/8in. (26.5cm.) diameter; 38oz.
LONDON, 1905, MAKER'S MARK APPARENTLY FCW,
the body lobed, engraved, "LOUGH ERNE YACHT CLUB...", marked on body
10 3/8in. (26.5cm.) diameter; 38oz.
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