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Lot 70

An Arts & Crafts silver centrepiece
by Omar Ramsden, London 1934 / 1935

Important Design

25 October 2017, 14:00 BST

London, New Bond Street

£12,000 - £15,000

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An Arts & Crafts silver centrepiece

by Omar Ramsden, London 1934 / 1935
Shaped-oblong form with central projections featuring the arms of Baron Hyndley of Meads, Sussex, at each end a mermaid on rope support, with a removable flower grille, the body with applied insignia for a Knight Bachelor, a Baronet, a knighthood of the Order of the Crown of Italy and the 1935 jubilee medal for George V, accompanied by a photo and a signed note from Omar Ramsden to Lord Hyndley, length 44.5cm, weight 87oz.

Footnotes

This lot was commissioned by Lord Hyndley as a gift for his daughter Millicent Joyce Hyndley (1914-1992) on her 21st birthday. It can be compared to a rose bowl, also by Omar Ramsden, commissioned by Lord Hyndley for his other daughter, Elizabeth, and sold in these rooms on 22nd July 2011.

1st Viscount John Scott Hyndley GBE (1883-1963) was a British businessman and industrialist. During the First World War he was a member of the Coal Controllers Export Advisory Committee and provided valuable assistance in the supply of coal to Italy. After the war he was awarded a knighthood of the Order of the Crown of Italy in gratitude.

Hyndley was director of the Bank of England between 1931 and 1945 and became the first chairman of the National Coal Board upon its creation on 1st January 1947. Knighted in 1921, he was created a Baronet in 1927 and Baron in 1931, then Viscount in 1947. In 1953, he was master of the Clothworkers' Company.

Provenance
Property of 1st Viscount John Scott Hyndley GBE.
Thence by descent to the present owner.

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