PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF NEIL RIMINGTON (1928-2009) OF FONTHILL OLD ABBEY ESTATE, WILTSHIRE (LOTS 171-177)

A PAIR OF EARLY VICTORIAN DERBYSHIRE BLACK MARBLE VASES, ON PLINTHS

ATTRIBUTED TO THE ASHFORD MARBLE WORKS, MID-19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF EARLY VICTORIAN DERBYSHIRE BLACK MARBLE VASES, ON PLINTHS
ATTRIBUTED TO THE ASHFORD MARBLE WORKS, MID-19TH CENTURY
Each of campana vase form, on a faux marble painted wooden stepped plinth
The vases: 35 in. (89 cm.) high; 21½ in. (54.5 cm.) diameter
The plinths: 34 in. (86.5 cm.) high; 20½ in. (52 cm.) square at base (4)

來源

Richard, 2nd Marquess of Westminster (d. 1869) at Fonthill, Wiltshire. By descent to Lady Octavia Shaw-Stewart, née Grosvenor (d. 1920) and then by direct descent.

拍場告示

The socles have been removed from the bases to reveal a printed label identifying these vases as manufactured by Selim Bright of Buxton, Derbyshire.

This strengthens the likelihood that they are the very same vases shown at 1851 Great Exhibition by Selim Bright as listed in the catalogue note.
The label reads
'S. BRIGHT & CO.S./FANCY MARBLE AND SPAR/MANUFACTORY/CENTRE OF THE CRESCENT/BUXTON./INLAID TABLES, VASE &c., &c./Of the Finest Workmanship and most Elegant Designs/ADMIRABLY CARVED ANIMALS,/In Great Variety'

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A number of similar Derbyshire black marble vases where exhibited at the 1851 Great Exhibition. The following descriptions could relate to the present lot:
37 & 38, HALL, J. & T. MARBLE WORKS DERBY - MANUFACTURER
'Vases, Grecian form in plain black marble'.
80 BRIGHT, SELIM, BUXTON, DERBYSHIRE - MANUFACTURER
'Black marble vases, exhibited for size, colour, polish and finish. The handles are carved out of the solid marble'.
(R. Ellis (ed.), Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations, 1851. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue, London, 1851, Volume II., pp. 766 & 769).
A pair of much smaller vases of this model, also etched with signs of the zodiac, sold Christie's, London, 4 June 2009, lot 2.