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Lot Essay
THOMAS HEATH
The arms are those of Heath, with Bayley in pretence, for Thomas Heath (circa 1674 - 1741) and his wife Catherine, daughter and co-heiress of Arthur Bayley of Mile End Green. Thomas Heath was a leading East India merchant who was a director of the East India Company from 1713 - 1715 and again from 1719 - 1721. He was himself the son of an East India ship's captain and his wife's father was in the Virginia trade. He was a member of Parliament at various periods in 1704 - 1722 and bought the Stansted estate, now dominated by London's third airport. The estate descended to his son and grandsons but was sold after the
death of Bailey Heath in 1808.
GEORGE CLIVE
George Clive, M.P, (1803 - 1880) was the third son of Edward Bolton Clive (d. 1845) of Whitfield, Herefordshire. After a successful legal career, George Clive was Under Secretary of State for the Home Department from 1859 until 1862, when illness curtailed his political career. He and his wife Ann Sybella Farquhar were great patrons and friends of Edward Lear, who was a regular visitor to Perrystone. Their daughter Sybella Mildmay (d. 1900) was also a patron of Lear and commissioned the magnificent View of Damascus sold from the collection of the late Lady Mynors, Christie's, London, 10 March 1995, lot 173. George Clive's son General Edward Clive (d. 1916) was part of the generation of senior officers who attempted to close the educational and training gap between the British Army and its potential continental opponents. He was an early Commandant of the Staff College (1885 - 88) and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1888 - 93).
MRS. MAISIE HAYWARD
Maisie Cadwell married Morton Plant, the son of the railroad tycoon Henry Bradley Plant, in 1914. He gave her $ 5 million as a wedding present but it was probably the pearl necklace by Cartier that was the most intriguing gift. He traded his Fifth Avenue 52nd Street mansion for the necklace and the building remains a flag-store for Cartier. Subsequently she married Col. William Hayward, a World War I hero, and later still Mr. Manwaring. In 1954 Maisie Cadwell Manwaring Plant Hayward married John E. Rovensky, a highly successful banker and chairman of AC&F. She died only two years later of a heart-attack and in her will she stipulated that $ 6 million was to be given to charities of his choosing. Because Mr. Rovensky's own fortune was more modest, he sold most furnishings, jewelry and fine art in sales at Parke-Bernet in 1957, while their house on Fifth Avenue was replaced by a large apartment building.
DESIGN
The design of these tapestries has been attributed to Andien de Clermont (d. 1783) on stylistic grounds. The Monkey Room at Kirtlington Park, Oxfordshire, shows similar birds while the scrolling leaves separating the color tones of the ground can also be found on wall panels that are signed and dated by Clermont in 1742. Clermont probably studied under Antoine Monnoyer, son of Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer and moved to England in 1716 or 17. He remained there until 1754. It is apparent that the designer knew contemporary fashion in France as many elements are directly comparable with tapestry designs at Gobelins and Beauvais in the early years of the 18th Century. These designs are highly accomplished and praised by Marillier as 'The drawing and workmanship are of a high order, not unworthy of comparison with the Beauvais tapestries which they were no doubt intended to rival, and the use of fresh cartoons for the different sets points to the existence of some very capable artist in this class of work', while Wingfield Digby comments 'undoubtedly the best designed of eighteenth-century English tapestries are the Arabesque, or Grostesque series connected with the name of the weaver Joshua Morris'.
I MORRIS
This tapestry and the companion piece which was also sold from Perrystone Court in 1916, are apparently the only panels of this small group of tapestries that are signed and dated. They, and a set of six tapestries, of which one is also signed, that belongs to Viscount Cobham at Hagley Hall, Worcestershire, form the basis for the attribution of this group to Morris. I. Morris has been identified as Joshua Morris, who had his workshop in Frith Street, Soho and the Golden Ball in Pall Mall. He announced a sale of tapestries at his house in Frith Street 26 November 1726 and was involved in a lawsuit with William Hogarth claiming that his designs were unusable in 1728.
COMPARABLE EXAMPLES
A virtually identical cartouche with spread eagle is on an example in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (A. Cavallo, Tapestries of Europe and Colonial Peru in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 1967, vol. II, pl. 53). A tapestry with very similar border is in the Victoria & Albert Museum (A.F. Kendrick, Victoria and Albert Museum, Catalogue of Tapestries, London, 1924, pl. VI). A further small tapestry, similar to that at the V&A was on the art market in New York in the 1920s and incorporated the same borders as well as an identical parrot perched at the side (H. Göbel, Wandteppiche III. Teil die germanischen und slawischen Länder, Leipzig, 1934, vol. II, fig. 158a).
The arms are those of Heath, with Bayley in pretence, for Thomas Heath (circa 1674 - 1741) and his wife Catherine, daughter and co-heiress of Arthur Bayley of Mile End Green. Thomas Heath was a leading East India merchant who was a director of the East India Company from 1713 - 1715 and again from 1719 - 1721. He was himself the son of an East India ship's captain and his wife's father was in the Virginia trade. He was a member of Parliament at various periods in 1704 - 1722 and bought the Stansted estate, now dominated by London's third airport. The estate descended to his son and grandsons but was sold after the
death of Bailey Heath in 1808.
GEORGE CLIVE
George Clive, M.P, (1803 - 1880) was the third son of Edward Bolton Clive (d. 1845) of Whitfield, Herefordshire. After a successful legal career, George Clive was Under Secretary of State for the Home Department from 1859 until 1862, when illness curtailed his political career. He and his wife Ann Sybella Farquhar were great patrons and friends of Edward Lear, who was a regular visitor to Perrystone. Their daughter Sybella Mildmay (d. 1900) was also a patron of Lear and commissioned the magnificent View of Damascus sold from the collection of the late Lady Mynors, Christie's, London, 10 March 1995, lot 173. George Clive's son General Edward Clive (d. 1916) was part of the generation of senior officers who attempted to close the educational and training gap between the British Army and its potential continental opponents. He was an early Commandant of the Staff College (1885 - 88) and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst (1888 - 93).
MRS. MAISIE HAYWARD
Maisie Cadwell married Morton Plant, the son of the railroad tycoon Henry Bradley Plant, in 1914. He gave her $ 5 million as a wedding present but it was probably the pearl necklace by Cartier that was the most intriguing gift. He traded his Fifth Avenue 52nd Street mansion for the necklace and the building remains a flag-store for Cartier. Subsequently she married Col. William Hayward, a World War I hero, and later still Mr. Manwaring. In 1954 Maisie Cadwell Manwaring Plant Hayward married John E. Rovensky, a highly successful banker and chairman of AC&F. She died only two years later of a heart-attack and in her will she stipulated that $ 6 million was to be given to charities of his choosing. Because Mr. Rovensky's own fortune was more modest, he sold most furnishings, jewelry and fine art in sales at Parke-Bernet in 1957, while their house on Fifth Avenue was replaced by a large apartment building.
DESIGN
The design of these tapestries has been attributed to Andien de Clermont (d. 1783) on stylistic grounds. The Monkey Room at Kirtlington Park, Oxfordshire, shows similar birds while the scrolling leaves separating the color tones of the ground can also be found on wall panels that are signed and dated by Clermont in 1742. Clermont probably studied under Antoine Monnoyer, son of Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer and moved to England in 1716 or 17. He remained there until 1754. It is apparent that the designer knew contemporary fashion in France as many elements are directly comparable with tapestry designs at Gobelins and Beauvais in the early years of the 18th Century. These designs are highly accomplished and praised by Marillier as 'The drawing and workmanship are of a high order, not unworthy of comparison with the Beauvais tapestries which they were no doubt intended to rival, and the use of fresh cartoons for the different sets points to the existence of some very capable artist in this class of work', while Wingfield Digby comments 'undoubtedly the best designed of eighteenth-century English tapestries are the Arabesque, or Grostesque series connected with the name of the weaver Joshua Morris'.
I MORRIS
This tapestry and the companion piece which was also sold from Perrystone Court in 1916, are apparently the only panels of this small group of tapestries that are signed and dated. They, and a set of six tapestries, of which one is also signed, that belongs to Viscount Cobham at Hagley Hall, Worcestershire, form the basis for the attribution of this group to Morris. I. Morris has been identified as Joshua Morris, who had his workshop in Frith Street, Soho and the Golden Ball in Pall Mall. He announced a sale of tapestries at his house in Frith Street 26 November 1726 and was involved in a lawsuit with William Hogarth claiming that his designs were unusable in 1728.
COMPARABLE EXAMPLES
A virtually identical cartouche with spread eagle is on an example in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (A. Cavallo, Tapestries of Europe and Colonial Peru in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 1967, vol. II, pl. 53). A tapestry with very similar border is in the Victoria & Albert Museum (A.F. Kendrick, Victoria and Albert Museum, Catalogue of Tapestries, London, 1924, pl. VI). A further small tapestry, similar to that at the V&A was on the art market in New York in the 1920s and incorporated the same borders as well as an identical parrot perched at the side (H. Göbel, Wandteppiche III. Teil die germanischen und slawischen Länder, Leipzig, 1934, vol. II, fig. 158a).