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The following eight lots come from the collection of the late 7th Earl of Harewood, whose ancestral home, Harewood House in Yorkshire, is one of the best loved country houses in Britain. The collection includes a superb marble bust of the Roman Emperor Commodus as a young man (lot 3), fine Georgian silver-gilt cups (lots 6 and 7) and a splendid pair of late 18th century bronze and ormolu vases attributed to the Royal bronzier Claude Galle (lot 5).
A REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE CRACKLE-WARE VASE
THE MOUNTS ATTRIBUTED TO VULLIAMY & SON, CIRCA 1806 AND RE-GILT, THE PORCELAIN MID-19TH CENTURY
Details
A REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE CRACKLE-WARE VASE
THE MOUNTS ATTRIBUTED TO VULLIAMY & SON, CIRCA 1806 AND RE-GILT, THE PORCELAIN MID-19TH CENTURY
With overlaid scrolling floral and stylised foliate ornament on a foliate-cast base on four claw feet, previously with an upper rim mount, a broken and restored section to the upper rim, the base re-gilt in the 19th century
15¾ in. (40 cm.) high
THE MOUNTS ATTRIBUTED TO VULLIAMY & SON, CIRCA 1806 AND RE-GILT, THE PORCELAIN MID-19TH CENTURY
With overlaid scrolling floral and stylised foliate ornament on a foliate-cast base on four claw feet, previously with an upper rim mount, a broken and restored section to the upper rim, the base re-gilt in the 19th century
15¾ in. (40 cm.) high
Provenance
The mounts almost certainly supplied by Vulliamy & Son, London, to Edward Lascelles, 1st Earl of Harewood (1740-1820), or his eldest son Edward 'Beau' Lascelles (1764-1814) and by descent at Harewood House, Yorkshire.
Literature
'Harewood House, Yorkshire, The Seat of the Earl of Harewood', Country Life , 4 July 1914, illus. A Gallery Window, p. 22.
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