CIRCA 1830

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A WILLIAM IV GILT-BRONZE SERPENTINE FENDER
CIRCA 1830
With central cartouche depicting a star encircled by the Newcastle motto 'LOYAULTE NA HONTE', minor losses
24 in. (61 cm.) high; 55 in. (140 cm.) wide; 18 in. (46 cm.) deep

Provenance

Supplied to Henry Pelham, K.G., 4th Duke of Newcastle (1785-1851), for Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire, and by descent to
Henry Pelham-Clinton-Hope, Earl of Lincoln, later 9th Duke of Newcastle (1907-1988);
Christie's house sale, 19 October 1937, lot 274 (part).
Anonymous sale; Christie's London, 23 November 2006, lot 187 (£2,160).

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Lot Essay

The Clumber fender, serpentined in the George IV French fashion then called 'Louis Quatorze', formed part of the refurbishment of Clumber Park carried out in the late 1820s under the architect Sydney Smirke (d. 1877) for Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham Clinton, K.G., 4th Duke of Newcastle (d. 1851). Its 'picturesque' acanthus scrolls display a garlanded and antique-fretted shell cartouche wreathed with a ribbon bearing the Clinton family motto 'LOYAULTE N'A HONTE'; while more shells support the fire-iron rests. A similarly fashioned fender, in Clumber's State Drawing Room, is illustrated in situ in 1908 ('Clumber-I', Country Life, 12 September 1908, p. 357).

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