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Lot Essay
Only a few caskets of this model and maker are recorded such as one dated 1667 which is in the collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Another casket with small differences and dated 1675 is in a private collection, see J.W. Frederiks, Dutch Silver, The Hague, 1958, p. 128, no. 376, pl. 174, 175.
Thomas Wentworth Beaumont was the eldest son of Colonel Thomas Richard Beaumont (1758-1829) of Darton, Yorkshire and his wife Diana (d. 1831), the illegitimate daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Wentworth Blackett, 5th Bt., of Hexham Abbey, Northumberland, and Bretton Hall, near Wakefield, Yorkshire.
Educated at Eton and at St John's College, Cambridge, Beaumont went on to become MP for Northumberland. He married Henrietta Jane Emma Hawks, daughter of John Atkinson of Maple Hayes, Staffordshire in November 1827, they had four sons and two daughters. Following the deaths of his father in 1829 and his mother in 1831, Beaumont came into full possession of the Blackett estates and the wealth that came with them. He retired from politics in 1837 and spent much of the next decade, until his death in 1848, travelling on the continent. As a great patron of the arts it seems likely that he acquired the present casket during those travels.
Thomas' son was created Baron Allendale in 1906 and his grandson Viscount Allendale in 1911.
Thomas Wentworth Beaumont was the eldest son of Colonel Thomas Richard Beaumont (1758-1829) of Darton, Yorkshire and his wife Diana (d. 1831), the illegitimate daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Wentworth Blackett, 5th Bt., of Hexham Abbey, Northumberland, and Bretton Hall, near Wakefield, Yorkshire.
Educated at Eton and at St John's College, Cambridge, Beaumont went on to become MP for Northumberland. He married Henrietta Jane Emma Hawks, daughter of John Atkinson of Maple Hayes, Staffordshire in November 1827, they had four sons and two daughters. Following the deaths of his father in 1829 and his mother in 1831, Beaumont came into full possession of the Blackett estates and the wealth that came with them. He retired from politics in 1837 and spent much of the next decade, until his death in 1848, travelling on the continent. As a great patron of the arts it seems likely that he acquired the present casket during those travels.
Thomas' son was created Baron Allendale in 1906 and his grandson Viscount Allendale in 1911.