Lot 44
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A NORTH EUROPEAN WALNUT, BURR-WALNUT, FRUITWOOD, MARQUETRY, PEWTER-INLAID AND EBONISED BOX
A NORTH EUROPEAN WALNUT, BURR-WALNUT, FRUITWOOD, MARQUETRY, PEWTER-INLAID AND EBONISED BOX
A NORTH EUROPEAN WALNUT, BURR-WALNUT, FRUITWOOD, MARQUETRY, PEWTER-INLAID AND EBONISED BOX
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A NORTH EUROPEAN WALNUT, BURR-WALNUT, FRUITWOOD, MARQUETRY, PEWTER-INLAID AND EBONISED BOX
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A NORTH EUROPEAN WALNUT, BURR-WALNUT, FRUITWOOD, MARQUETRY, PEWTER-INLAID AND EBONISED BOX

EARLY 18TH CENTURY

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A NORTH EUROPEAN WALNUT, BURR-WALNUT, FRUITWOOD, MARQUETRY, PEWTER-INLAID AND EBONISED BOX
EARLY 18TH CENTURY
The hinged lid centred by a cartouche depicting a rider, three huntsmen and a dog, within a dense foliate frame and foliate strapwork, the reverse of the top centred by a bird and butterflies perched on a flower, the borders of the top and side panels further inlaid with scrolling foliage, the top with ebonised moulded edge, plinth base and later bun feet, the underside with rectangular blue-bordered label inscribed '1404'
6 in. (15 cm.) high; 21 in. (53.5 cm.) wide; 15 ¾ in. (40 cm.) deep
Provenance
By repute, Baron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild, Mentmore Towers, Buckinghamshire and by descent to his daughter
Hannah de Rothschild, wife of the 5th Earl of Rosebery (m. 1878).
By descent to the 7th Earl of Rosebery, Mentmore Towers, Buckinghamshire; sold Sotheby's house sale, 18-27 May 1977.

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Lot Essay


The art collections at Mentmore were amongst the most outstanding of their kind anywhere in the world, prompting Lady Eastlake to comment: 'I do not believe that the Medici were ever so lodged at the height of their glory'. Mentmore was built between 1852 and 1854 by Baron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild, who needed a house near to London and in close proximity to other Rothschild homes at Tring, Ascot, Aston Clinton and later Waddesdon and Halton House. The plans for the mansion imitated Wollaton Hall in Nottingham and were drawn up by the gardener turned architect Joseph Paxton, celebrated for his Crystal Palace, completed the year earlier. Sumptuously furnished with extraordinary works of art in every field, on his death in 1874, Baron Mayer left Mentmore and a fortune of some £2,000,000 to his daughter, Hannah de Rothschild. Four years later Hannah married Archibald Philip, 5th Earl of Rosebery, who added considerably to the collections assembled by his father-in-law and it remained intact until the dispersal of the contents in 1977.

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