Jim Peake
Head of Department
Lot 81
Six pieces of gilt glass from the 'Hertford Service', circa 1840-50
29 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,020 inc. premium
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Six pieces of gilt glass from the 'Hertford Service', circa 1840-50
Possibly Baccarat, faceted and decorated in tooled gilding with alternating baskets of fruit and of flowers flanked by acanthus scrolls, comprising three water bottles, two claret glasses, and a wine glass cooler with the crowned coat of arms of Conway quartering Seymour, inscribed with the motto of the Garter 'HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE', the claret glasses 14.6cm high (6)
Footnotes
Provenance
Probably Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford, Hertford House
These pieces are probably recorded in the inventory for Gallery 3 of Hertford House in 1890 as "an embossed gilt service with coronet and crest", which then consisted of "5 decanters, 33 Water bottles, 34 Sherry glasses, 36 Clarets, 8 Liquers, 36 Wine coolers, 35 Tumblers". The arms are probably those of Captain Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford KG (1800-1870). Lord Hertford lived mostly in Paris and from 1848 in the Château de Bagatelle in the Bois de Boulogne. His English residences included Hertford House in London, now home to the Wallace Collection, and Ragley Hall in Warwickshire. He was an important art collector and one of the founders of the Wallace Collection, bequeathed to the nation by the widow of his illegitimate son, Sir Richard Wallace, 1st Baronet. Three wine glass coolers from this service were sold by Bonhams on 15 December 2010, lot 181.
