![LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward (1888-1935). An early-20th-century Arab agal [head circlet used to secure a keffiyeh or headcovering], formed of a double circlet of purple silk threads bound at intervals with copper wire, one end terminating in two loops, the other in two silk covered buttons to close it (765mm long). (Slight fading and fraying, later repairs to buttons.) Contained in a later cloth box with gilt morocco lettering-piece on spine. Provenance: T.E. Lawrence (gift to:) -- Mrs Clare Sydney Smith (by descent to her daughter:) -- Mrs Maureen Hews (by whom given to Lionel Dakers in 1986; note initialled by Dakers detailing the provenance and accompanying correspondence). Exhibited: T.E. Lawrence Centenary Exhibition (National Portrait Gallery, London, 1988, no. 114).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2006/CKS/2006_CKS_07275_0217_000(010416).jpg?w=1)
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LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward (1888-1935). An early-20th-century Arab agal [head circlet used to secure a keffiyeh or headcovering], formed of a double circlet of purple silk threads bound at intervals with copper wire, one end terminating in two loops, the other in two silk covered buttons to close it (765mm long). (Slight fading and fraying, later repairs to buttons.) Contained in a later cloth box with gilt morocco lettering-piece on spine. Provenance: T.E. Lawrence (gift to:) -- Mrs Clare Sydney Smith (by descent to her daughter:) -- Mrs Maureen Hews (by whom given to Lionel Dakers in 1986; note initialled by Dakers detailing the provenance and accompanying correspondence). Exhibited: T.E. Lawrence Centenary Exhibition (National Portrait Gallery, London, 1988, no. 114).
AN ARAB AGAL GIVEN BY LAWRENCE TO HIS FRIEND MRS CLARE SYDNEY SMITH, wife of his commanding officer at RAF Cattewater, Plymouth Sound and author of a memoir of Lawrence. In March 1929, Lawrence was posted to RAF Cattewater (later renamed RAF Mount Batten, at his instigation), where his commanding officer was Wing Commander Sydney Smith, whom Lawrence had first met at the Paris Peace Conference and who had later organised the covert disembarkation of Lawrence from the Rajputana, upon his return from India. Lawrence became firm friends with his commanding officer and his family, particularly Mrs Clare Sydney Smith, and he described this period at Cattewater as 'The Golden Reign' -- a phrase Clare Sydney Smith later used as the title of her memoir of Lawrence. This agal, given to Mrs Clare Sydney Smith by Lawrence, is a remarkable relic both of this friendship and of Lawrence, who was frequently portrayed wearing Arab dress by John, Kennington, and other artists. With: Jeremy Wilson's T.E. Lawrence (London: National Portrait Gallery, 1988, FIRST EDITION) and a folder of correspondence and ephemera relating to the exhibition.
AN ARAB AGAL GIVEN BY LAWRENCE TO HIS FRIEND MRS CLARE SYDNEY SMITH, wife of his commanding officer at RAF Cattewater, Plymouth Sound and author of a memoir of Lawrence. In March 1929, Lawrence was posted to RAF Cattewater (later renamed RAF Mount Batten, at his instigation), where his commanding officer was Wing Commander Sydney Smith, whom Lawrence had first met at the Paris Peace Conference and who had later organised the covert disembarkation of Lawrence from the Rajputana, upon his return from India. Lawrence became firm friends with his commanding officer and his family, particularly Mrs Clare Sydney Smith, and he described this period at Cattewater as 'The Golden Reign' -- a phrase Clare Sydney Smith later used as the title of her memoir of Lawrence. This agal, given to Mrs Clare Sydney Smith by Lawrence, is a remarkable relic both of this friendship and of Lawrence, who was frequently portrayed wearing Arab dress by John, Kennington, and other artists. With: Jeremy Wilson's T.E. Lawrence (London: National Portrait Gallery, 1988, FIRST EDITION) and a folder of correspondence and ephemera relating to the exhibition.
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