English fairground collection cues the calliope at Sworders March 7

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STANSTED MOUNTFITCHET, UK — All the fun of the fair comes to Sworders on Thursday, March 7 with the sale of the John Barker collection of late 19th- and early 20th-century carousel horses, carvings, and regalia. Bidding for the 47 lots is available via LiveAuctioneers.

Purchasing his first carousel carving from a junk shop at the age of 14, John Barker has collected fairground art for more than half a century. He estimates that as much as 80% of his collection was acquired in the U.S., where many fine pieces were exported to collectors from the 1960s to the 1990s.

After selling a small portion of his holdings at Sworders in 2018 and choosing around a dozen pieces to pass on to his grandchildren, Barker will sell his collection across two sales this year.

“I can’t lie. It is a wrench,” he said. “Every piece is exceptional, and it’s been a lifelong passion finding and restoring them. However, I look forward to seeing how they are enjoyed by other collectors, knowing my name will always be connected to them.”

Among Barker’s favorite lots in the sale is a torso mount from a famous ride created by the celebrated Burton-on-Trent, England woodcarver Charles (C. J.) Spooner. Made in 1900, this model of the politician Joseph Chamberlain wearing a tam-o’-shanter and monocle was part of a very topical carousel of 12 centaurs carved with the heads of Boer War leaders. The ride debuted at the Neath Fair in Swansea, Wales in September 1900.

Apparently, Chamberlain, then Secretary of State for the Colonies, did not appeal to the customers, who preferred to ride atop Kitchener, Roberts, Baden-Powell, and other ‘war hero’ centaurs. Quietly removed from the ride and replaced, it is unlikely Spooner ever carved another. This, the 2ft 5in (73cm) top half of the figure, is estimated at £6,000-£8,000 ($7,575-$10,100).

Spooner produced a huge variety of animal figures for merry-go-rounds, ranging from the usual galloping horses to ostriches, bears, lions, donkeys, pigs, goats, and turkeys. A couple of rarities in the sale are an ‘outside row’ carving of an animated juvenile elephant wearing a colorful saddlecloth (estimated at £7,000-£9,000, or $8,835-$11,360) and an ornate pair of juvenile ‘Dobby’ horse carousel mounts, likely taken from a child-size ride owned by W. H. Marshall & Sons of Bradford.

There are several examples from the Bristol workshop of Arthur Anderson. The son of a woodcarver who made figureheads for wooden ships, he turned out dozens of superb animals for fairs all across Britain. When he died in 1936, it is said that classic English fairground horse died with him. A large Anderson galloper dating to circa 1895 and probably carved for the showman Walter Sharples, whose initials appear on the saddle, is estimated at £5,000-£7,000 ($6,310-$8,835) while a juvenile carousel mount in the form of a lion, with initials for the famed Worcestershire, England showman Alfred Scarrott, carries an estimate of £3,000-£5,000 ($3,785-$6,310).
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Fairground carved wooden admission sign by C. J. Spooner, estimated at £1,200-£1,800 ($1,515-$2,270) at Sworders.
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Juvenile elephant fairground carousel mount by C. J. Spooner, estimated at £7,000-£9,000 ($8,835-$11,360) at Sworders.
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Fairground carousel mount torso of Joseph Chamberlain by C. J. Spooner, estimated at £6,000-£8,000 ($7,575-$10,100) at Sworders.
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Juvenile carousel mount in the form of a lion by Arthur Anderson, estimated at £3,000-£5,000 ($3,785-$6,310) at Sworders.
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Fairground carousel galloper horse by Arthur Anderson, estimated at £5,000-£7,000 ($6,310-$8,835) at Sworders.
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Warner Dailey’s exquisitely eccentric collection graces Sworders Feb. 22

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STANSTED MOUNTFITCHET, U.K. — Items from the remarkable collection of Warner Dailey will be auctioned this month. Some 300 lots from the home of the Anglo-American art and antiques dealer will be sold in a single-owner sale at Sworders on Thursday, February 22. The catalog is now available for bidding at LiveAuctioneers.

For Warner Dailey, the collecting habit began young. An only child born in New Jersey in 1945, he was trading badges in preschool before graduating to stamps and shells. After moving to London with $1,000 and a promise of a job on the front counter at Christie’s in 1968, he spent the 1970s and 1980s working as a ‘runner,’ driving a Mercedes-Benz station wagon around the South of England, filling it with objects that ranged from the best in Russian objects d’art to the weird and wonderful. His clients included the American publishing magnate and Fabergé fanatic Malcolm Forbes, who paid him a retainer to find items for him.

Having bought and sold an estimated 100,000 objects in his career, Dailey’s home in southeast London groans under the weight of pictures, natural history specimens, tribal art, exotic textiles, and objects that just demand to be picked up and studied.

“Collecting has been almost everything in my life. It is a constant stimulation that you can’t get from anything else. What I value most is the gathering, the learning, and the experience of what these objects give you.” The three words he uses to describe the collection are “historic, eclectic, and unusual.”

Estimates at Sworders’ sale range from £300-£400 ($380-$505) for an early 19th-century iron anti-slavery tobacco box retaining its original white-on-green paintwork to £16,000-£20,000 ($20,255-$25,320) for a fine pair of silver-mounted 16-bore flintlock holster pistols engraved with the mermaid crest of Lord Byron’s father.

Dailey has a deep emotional connection to objects that come with a narrative — a story about ownership, an individual, or a culture. Throughout his career he kept careful notes regarding his purchases to ensure the details were not lost. A straw work box in the form of a book (estimate £800-£1,200, or $1,010-$1,520) tells the story of the early 19th-century French prisoner-of-war who made it, but also its more recent ownership history in the collection of John Paul Getty Jr. The box, given by Getty to the heiress and fashion model Nicky Samuel during London’s Swinging Sixties, entered Dailey’s collection on October 20, 2014.

Among his personal favorites is a small leather bag that holds several objects including rings, bracelets, a tooth filling, and a label recording the items were found in the stomach of a man-eating crocodile shot in the Ganges in 1915. Formerly in the collection of Jan and Craig Finch, it has an estimate of £700-£900 ($885-$1,140).

Dailey’s love of objects suited to the kuntskammer or the Indian souk was inspired by a childhood visit to the home of a retired sea captain on Long Island. “There were all these wonderful things, from the jaw of a sperm whale to a Maori tattooed head, and I thought, one day, I want to have a house and collection like this,” he said, recalling.

One of several maritime lots in the sale are the seaman’s papers of Charles Green (1888-1974) documenting his life at sea, including two years with Shackleton in Antarctica as part of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1914-16. Green was the ship’s cook and was among the men who remained on Elephant Island when Shackleton and five crew members sailed to a whaling station in South Georgia, returning to save everyone three months later. Acquired from dealer Laurence Langford, it is estimated at £400-£600 ($505-$760).

Bearing an estimate of £1,000-£1,500 ($1,265-$1,900) is a Victorian oak and gunmetal walking stick engraved to the knob with a view of ships at sea and to the collar with the inscription Mary Rose Sunk 1545 Raised 1840. It was probably made from materials salvaged from the wreck of Henry VIII’s flagship by Charles and John Deane. Contracted to remove wrecks from the Solent by the Admiralty, they developed the first practical diving suit in 1837 with the assistance of Augustus Siebe.
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Early 19th-century iron anti-slavery tobacco box retaining its original white-on-green paintwork, estimated at £300-£400 ($380-$505) at Sworders.
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Pair of silver-mounted 16-bore flintlock holster pistols engraved with the mermaid crest of Lord Byron’s father, estimated at £16,000-£20,000 ($20,255-$25,320) at Sworders.
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Papers of Charles Green documenting his life at sea, including two years with Ernest Shackleton’s Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, estimated at £400-£600 ($505-$760) at Sworders.
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French prisoner-of-war straw work box in the form of a book set with a watercolor view of Beaufort Castle, estimated at £800-£1,200 ($1,010-$1,520) at Sworders.
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Leather bag holding items found in the stomach of a man-eating crocodile shot in the Ganges in 1915, estimated at £700-£900 ($885-$1,140) at Sworders.
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Victorian oak and gunmetal walking stick made with material salvaged from the Mary Rose in 1840, estimated at £1,000-£1,500 ($1,265-$1,900) at Sworders.
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Maurice ‘Dick’ Turpin: The English dealer’s legend lives on at Sworders Jan. 25

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STANSTED MOUNTFITCHET, U.K. — Sworders will conduct an auction on Thursday, January 25 devoted to the personal collection of Maurice Turpin (1928-2005). Known throughout the trade as ‘Dick,’ he achieved near legendary status in the course of a 50-year career as an antiques dealer.

During what’s been called the ‘golden age’ of the English antique furniture business, Turpin was a familiar sight at regional U.K. salerooms and was one of the first British dealers to undertake frequent buying trips to the U.S. The caliber of the pieces that he bought and sold was only surpassed by his persona; a giant of a man with a large walrus moustache, thick-rimmed spectacles and a trilby hat, he had a curiously high-pitched voice.

Following his death in 2005, the stock from his Bruton Street shop was dispersed in two sales at Christie’s, both titled The Legend of Dick Turpin. Sworders will sell the contents of the flat in London W14 he shared with partner Jackie Mann. The auction of 267 lots will simply be titled Dick Turpin: The Legend Lives On.

Leading the sale is a George III padouk and kingwood commode attributed to one of the great figures of British furniture history, John Cobb (circa 1715-1778). Of serpentine outline with ormolu mounts and a matched-veneered top, it carries an estimate of £30,000-£50,000 ($37,610-$62,680).

The auction also includes spectacular classics such as a pair of George III blue john and ormolu ‘Cleopatra’ candle vases attributed to Matthew Boulton (estimated at £2,000-£4,000, or $2,500-$5,015) and an Italian bronze group of Hercules and the Nemean Lion after the antique (estimated at £1,000-£2,000, or $1,250-$2,500). Both were areas in which Turpin held considerable expertise.

A pair of the distinctive ‘basso relievo’ embossed bird pictures by Samuel Dixon of Dublin, circa 1750, also appear in the sale lineup. The hand-colored prints Canary Bird with a Group of Flowers and The Cock Butcher Bird with a Group of Flowers are both signed and dedicated ‘To Her Grace the Duchess of Hamilton.’ They are estimated at £3,000-£5,000 ($3,760-$6,260).

Less expected from a dealer who bought what were considered ‘period’ antiques are four inter-war bronzes by Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1959). The quartet of portrait busts includes casts of the First Portrait of Lillian Shelley and the Eighth Portrait of Peggy Jean, estimated at £2,000-£3,000 ($2,500-$3,7610) and £1,500-£2,000 ($1,880-2,500), respectively.
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George III padouk and kingwood commode attributed to John Cobb, estimated at £30,000-£50,000 ($37,610-$62,680) at Sworders.
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Pair of George III blue john and ormolu ‘Cleopatra’ candle vases attributed to Matthew Boulton, estimated at £2,000-£4,000 ($2,500-$5,015) at Sworders.
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Pair of ‘basso relievo’ embossed bird pictures by Samuel Dixon, estimated at £3,000-£5,000 ($3,760-$6,260) at Sworders.
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‘La Charite’ by Aime-Jules Dalou, cast by the Herard foundry, estimated at £4,000-£6,000 ($5,015-$7,520) at Sworders.
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Sir Jacob Epstein, ‘Head of a Young Man,’ estimated at £2,000-£3,000 ($2,500-$3,760) at Sworders.
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The art of the samurai comes to Sworders Nov. 2

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STANSTED MOUNTFITCHET, UK – The art of the samurai comes to Sworders on Thursday, November 2. As part of the Essex firm’s autumn Asian art offering, a total of 150 lots of Japanese arms and armor will be sold for the family of the late Peter Raymond Dennison.

A former marine mechanic with a deep interest in historical warfare, Dennison was a collector of Edo and Meiji period weaponry for many years and was a well-known face in the collecting community.

Many of the pieces in the sale date from the Edo period (1603-1868) when the city of Edo, aka modern-day Tokyo, became the center of Tokugawa shogunate power. Although a time of peace, this was the era of Bushido – The Way of the Warrior – when moral and military values were learned and maintained by swordsmanship. The word samurai derives from the term meaning ‘one who serves.’

The core of the collection is an array of 17th-19th century Japanese blades, each made by folding and hammering layers of high and low carbon steel. There are some 15 examples of the wakizashi (side-inserted sword) that were worn in pairs from the sash at the side; 19 katana, the classic curved, slender, single-edged blades considered among the finest cutting weapons in military history, and more than 30 varieties of polearms and spears – the naginata, omi yari and su yari. They carry estimates of £80-£120 ($100-$140) to £1,500-£2,500 ($1,800-$3,050) each.

With Japan at peace from the early 17th century, much of the costume and the accessories of the samurai were used for parades and martial arts rather than on the battlefield. Japanese armor, in particular, was anachronistic, and still made in the centuries-old fashion with the o-yoroi (cuirass and skirt) formed of flexible plates once designed to repel a bow and arrow.

There are several good gusoku (composite armors), in the Dennison collection that date from either the end of the Edo period or the beginning of the Meiji restoration that would ultimately abolish the samurai class. The famous Haito edict of 1876 ended the ancient samurai privilege of bearing swords in public.

The full suit of Japanese armor typically comprises the o-yoroi, sode (shoulder guards), kabuto (helmet with neck guard), datemono (crest), kote (sleeve armor) and haidate (thigh armor) with kusari (chainmail) and a menpo (face mask) with yodarekake (throat guard). Hugely decorative, 15 different sets or near sets are offered with estimates starting at £1,000-£3,500 ($1,200-$3,650) each.

Dennison was also interested in tsuba and other sword fittings plus Japanese matchlock rifles, bows and quivers of arrows. Examples of these are also included in the sale.
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Japanese Edo period gusoku (composite armor), estimated at £3,000-£4,000 ($3,650-$4,900) at Sworders.
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Japanese Edo or Meiji katana with black lacquer saya (scabbard) and shagreen tsuka (handle), estimated at £1,500-£2,500 ($1,800-$3,050) at Sworders.
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Japanese Edo or Meiji suji bachi kabuto (ridged helmet), estimated at £1,200-£1,800 ($1,450-$2,200) at Sworders.
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Japanese Edo or Meiji wakizashi with gilt-metal mounts in a gold-speckled scabbard, complete with signed kozuka and conforming kōgai (additional blades), estimated at £800-£900 ($975-$1,100) at Sworders.
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Japanese Edo or Meiji jomanji yari with a lacquered and abalone inlaid shaft and lacquered scabbard, estimate £500-£700 ($600-$850) at Sworders.
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Jacob Epstein bust of Lucien Freud headlines Sworders Oct. 17

Gilt bronze portrait bust of Lucien Freud by Jacob Epstein. Estimate £50,000-70,000 at Sworders.

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STANSTED MOUNTFITCHET, U.K. — A bronze bust that unites two titans of British 20th-century art — the sculptor Jacob Epstein (1880-1959) and the painter Lucien Freud (1922-2011) — will be offered at Sworders Fine Art Auctioneers.

Epstein’s 2ft 3in (68cm) high portrait of Freud is estimated at £50,000-£70,000 ($60,500-$84,700) as part of an auction of Modern British and Contemporary Art on Tuesday, October 17.

Epstein’s full-bust portrait of Freud was created in 1947, the same year the young artist married Epstein’s daughter, Kitty Garman. Epstein’s focus on the eyes and the intensity of the gaze echoes Freud’s own portraits of Kitty at that time. The plaster version is in the collection of the Allen Memorial Art Museum in Oberlin, Ohio, but this is thought to be a unique cast in gilded bronze.

The Sworders seller, who bought the bronze in 2012, reunited it with another Epstein bronze of Kitty from the same period. Offered with an estimate of £6,000-£7,000 ($7,260-$8,470), this represents an opportunity to purchase both Kitty and Lucian together.

Both pieces were consigned as part of the contents of Colne Priory in the Essex area of England. The £7 million ($8.5 million) Georgian red-brick country house built on the grounds of a medieval priory, set in 24 acres of immaculate gardens, was recently judged one of the region’s best addresses by Country Life magazine.

Works by Ed Ruscha (b. 1937-), a giant of the international contemporary art market, are rarely offered for sale outside of London. However, one is included in the October 17 Sworders auction. The five-fold lacquered wood standing screen is from an edition created in 1986. Depicting the beauty of a Los Angeles sunset on one side and a cloudscape on the other, the words ‘Remember and Forget’ in Ruscha’s familiar upper-case font are ones he used in other works done in the 1980s. The phrase is thought to be a deliberate misquote from the Elvis Presley song I Forgot to Remember to Forget.

The work was proposed as an edition of 12 with two artist’s proofs, but Ruscha closed the edition at seven works and two artist’s proofs. It has an estimate of £80,000-£120,000 ($96,800-$145,200).

The sale includes 16 lots by Edward Bawden (1903-1989) from different periods in his career. Estimated at £5,000-£8,000 ($6,050-$9,680) is a second edition impression of his famous linocut of Brighton Pier. Some 20 years apart, in 1958 and in 1977, the artist produced two editions of the distinctive scene, which shows the seaside town framed by the domes of the Royal Pavilion. Measuring 22in by 4ft 9in (55cm by 1.47cm), the prints were too large for a studio press, so Bawden made them on the floor, using his feet. In 2011, Bonhams sold a well-preserved first edition Brighton Pier for £13,000 ($15,730), which set the auction record for a Bawden print.

Certain to appeal to collectors are a series of original watercolors made by Bawden towards the end of his career as part of an abortive project to make textiles with the Dovecot Tapestry Works in Edinburgh. These six watercolors over pencil depicting Middle Eastern subjects were exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1986 and come for sale directly from the artist’s family. They are estimated at £3,000-£5,000 ($3,630-$6,050) each.
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Jacob Epstein, Lucian Freud bronze, estimated at £50,000-£70,000 ($60,500-$84,700) at Sworders Fine Art Auctioneers.
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Jacob Epstein, first portrait of Kitty (with curls) bronze with a gold-brown patina, estimated at £6,000-£7,000 ($7,260-$8,470) at Sworders Fine Art Auctioneers.
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Edward Bawden, ‘Brighton Pier,’ estimated at £5,000-£8,000 ($6,050-$9,680) at Sworders Fine Art Auctioneers.
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Edward Bawden, ‘Project for Tapestry III – Abydos,’ estimated at £3,000-£5,000 ($3,630-$6,050) at Sworders Fine Art Auctioneers.
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Ed Ruscha, ‘Remember and Forget,’ estimated at £80,000-£120,000 ($96,800-$145,200) at Sworders Fine Art Auctioneers.
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Sworders’ Guiness auction at Elveden Hall in the UK brings $843,000

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THETFORD, UK — Sworders conducted a single-owner auction for the Anglo-Irish aristocrat Lord Iveagh at Elveden Hall in Thetford, England on September 14. Hammering at close to £750,000 ($843,000), the sale comprised inherited furnishings with Guinness family connections from several properties, including Elveden itself and Farmleigh in Dublin, Ireland. With plenty of contributions from the US and Ireland, bidding for the 438 lots began at 10 am BST and only concluded at 7 pm BST. The complete sale results can be found at LiveAuctioneers.

Fittingly it was a marble bust of Sir Arthur Edward Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun (1840-1915), which garnered one of the sale’s highest prices. This 3ft high portrait on a Siena marble column was signed for Sir Thomas Farrell (1827-1900), the most successful sculptor in Ireland in the second half of the 19th century. He was responsible for many public statues in Dublin, including the bronze statue of Sir Arthur (the great-grandson of company founder Arthur Guinness) placed at St Stephen’s Green in 1891, upon which this bust is based. Once on display at the Guinness Brewery, it went to a London dealer at £30,000 with buyer’s premium ($37,200).

The present-day Guinness baronets descend from Baron Ardilaun’s younger brother Edward Cecil Guinness (1847-1927), the 1st Earl of Iveagh. Managing director of the Guinness partnership from 1868, by the age of 29 he had assumed sole ownership of the Dublin brewery as it enjoyed unprecedented success. He purchased Farmleigh in Dublin’s Phoenix Park in 1873 and Elveden Hall in 1893 after the death of the estate’s most famous occupant, the Maharajah Duleep Singh.

Two large late 19th-century pale blue ground wool carpets bought for Farmleigh at Harvey Nichols in September 1894 provided the top lots of the day. Both were made by Ziegler and Company of Manchester at its factory in Sultanabad. At the time, the firm used the best artisans from the region and local techniques but also hired British designers to modify Eastern designs and colors for the more restrained western taste.

Both carpets, retaining the cotton labels that documented their purchase, had been used at Farmleigh, one in the entrance hall, the other in the nursery dining room. They were bought by the same US phone bidder for sums of £34,000 with buyer’s premium ($53,320) and £33,000 with buyer’s premium ($40,920).

Edward Guinness remained chairman of the board for life and the company’s largest shareholder. It was another US buyer who purchased his boardroom chair, a handsome circa-1890 Hepplewhite-style mahogany armchair with a sterling silver name plaque and an inlaid family crest. It took £5,500 with buyer’s premium ($6,820) from an American private collector bidding via mobile phone while walking around his farm.

A sale held by Christie’s at Elveden in 1984 had disposed of most of the estate’s treasures relating to Duleep Singh. Living a gilded cage life in exile, the last ruler of the Sikh empire dwelled at the property from 1863 and had it remodeled as a quasi-oriental palace.

However, a nod to Elveden’s unique connection with the Indian subcontinent was provided by a set of 24 lithographs depicting Portraits of the Princes and Peoples of India. The artist was Emily Eden (1797-1869), who had journeyed to India in 1836 with her sister to join their brother George, Lord Auckland, who was Governor-General between 1835 and 1842. Her sketches were worked up on her return to England in 1842 and privately printed. One of the few surviving sets with contemporary coloring, they earned £9,750 with buyer’s premium ($12,090).

An Indian School gouache on paper depicting a ceremony with 10 Sikh gurus and attendants was won by a Sikh historian who traveled to Elveden to purchase the lot at £13,000 with buyer’s premium ($16,120). The buyer said “the late 19th century date of the work suggests it could have been purchased by Duleep Singh when he was living at the house.”

And of course, there was the Guinness memorabilia. A series of original advertising posters were eagerly contested, led by the classic My Goodness My Guinness with an image of a zookeeper and sea lion (£2,600 with buyer’s premium, or $3,224), and Opening Time is Guinness Time with a toucan removing the cap from a bottle of the black stuff (£2,860 with buyer’s premium, or $3,546).

A grand vintage vehicle concluded the bidding. Sold at £40,000 (£50,000 with buyer’s premium, or $62,000) was a 1928 Rolls-Royce Phantom I shooting brake, registration number YV 9253, with a full history that included a Buckinghamshire funeral director and a colorful British MP.  It was acquired by the Guinness family in 2007 for use on the estate as an up-market ‘gun bus,’ ferrying up to 12 guests in grand style.

Although its unique and impressive architecture and surrounding landscapes are a popular venue for film and creative industries, Elveden has been closed to the public since 1984. Experiencing the auction in such a unique setting was part of the appeal for many who viewed and attended on sale day.

Lord Iveagh said, “It’s been a joy seeing Elveden Hall furnished once again and looking so good. And wonderful to have so many visitors appreciating both the building and the items in the sale.”
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Marble portrait bust of Arthur Edward Guinness by Thomas Farrell, which sold for £30,000 with buyer’s premium ($37,200) at Sworders.
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Pair of Howard & Sons Bridgewater armchairs, which sold for £11,000 with buyer’s premium ($13,640) at Sworders.
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19th-century Indian miniature of a Sikh ceremony, which sold for £10,000 with buyer’s premium ($12,400) at Sworders.
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Display of grasses by Sutton & Sons, which sold for £5,500 with buyer’s premium ($6,820) at Sworders.
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Mahogany boardroom chair favored by the Earl of Iveagh, which sold for £5,500 with buyer’s premium ($6,820) at Sworders.
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1928 Rolls-Royce Phantom I shooting brake, which sold for £40,000 with buyer’s premium ($49,600) at Sworders.
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Late 19th-century Ziegler Sultanabad pattern carpet, which sold for £34,000 with buyer’s premium ($42,160) at Sworders.
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‘Portraits of the Princes and Peoples of India’ by Emily Eden, which sold for £7,500 with buyer’s premium ($9,300) at Sworders.
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Art and antiques from Edward Guinness to be auctioned at Elveden Hall by Sworders Sept. 14

A Louis XV floral marquetry bombe commode with Breccia marble top with an estimate of £8000-£12,000 at Sworders’ auction at Elveden Hall.

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ELVEDEN, U.K. – On-premises auctions in grand English country houses, once relatively common events, are now rare. They cost a lot to stage and the golden era of ancestral homes with groaning attics and stores is finished. However, there are exceptions to the rule.

Art and antiques from Edward Guinness, the 4th Earl of Iveagh, will be offered by Sworders at the family’s stately home Elveden Hall in the county of Suffolk on Thursday, September 14.

The sale of 440 lots will include inherited furnishings with Guinness family connections from several properties, including Elveden and Farmleigh in Dublin, which was sold in 1999 to the Irish state.

Lord Iveagh is selling the collection to raise funds for house repairs.

Elveden has not served as a home for nearly 100 years – the family live in a smaller property on the estate – and today is mainly used as a filming location for TV shows and movies including The Crown and Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut.

Almost never open to the public, the India-styled interiors are spectacular – created for former resident Duleep Singh (1838-93), the last Maharajah of the Sikh Empire. Living in England in what was called “gilded cage” exile, Singh purchased the house and its 16,000 acres in 1863.

Sworders’ auction will be held in the oak-paneled dining room with a pre-auction reception staged in the Mughal-inspired main hall.

Many of the items for sale were bought by Edward Cecil Guinness (1847–1927), the 1st Earl of Iveagh and Viscount Elveden. The great-grandson of Arthur Guinness, the creator of the famous brew, he was managing director of the Guinness partnership from 1868. When in October 1886, Guinness became a public company, he became the richest man in Ireland.

A noted collector, his London home at Hyde Park Corner, Farmleigh in Dublin’s Phoenix Park (which he bought in 1873) and later Elveden Hall (which he bought in 1893) all became vehicles for his taste.

The current Lord Iveagh comments: “My family has either specially commissioned or bought items to live at our various households in England and Ireland. In particular, Edward Cecil and Adelaide Guinness, my great-great-grandparents, amassed items to furnish their homes … with the quality and materials that just can’t be matched today. Supply is now dwindling, and, in the era of fast, cheap and throwaway furniture, they may never be available again … ”

The sale is the second to be held on the premises at Elveden Hall: Christie’s staged a £6 million (about $7.4 million) four-day auction here in 1984.

The current rate of exchange is £1 = $1.27.

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A Louis XV floral marquetry bombe commode with Breccia marble top, estimated at £8,000-£12,000 at Sworders’ auction at Elveden Hall.
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Elements of a late 19th-century Minton toilet set decorated with floral bouquets, estimated at £200-£300 at Sworders’ auction at Elveden Hall.
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The Right Honorable Earl of Iveagh’s mahogany boardroom armchair, circa 1890, estimated at £1,000-£1,500 at Sworders’ auction at Elveden Hall.
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A set of six late 19th-century giltwood open armchairs of Chippendale design, estimated at £3,000-£5,000 at Sworders’ auction at Elveden Hall.
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An original drawing for a Guinness advertisement by John Thomas Young Gilroy (1898-1985), estimated at £400-£600 at Sworders’ auction at Elveden Hall.
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A bust of Sir Arthur Edward Guinness (1840-1915) by Sir Thomas Farrell (1827-1900), estimated at £5,000-£8,000 at Sworders’ auction at Elveden Hall.
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US bidder wins Margaret Thatcher painting at Sworders auction

Alfred Reginald Thompson, ‘First Time at The Box,’ £22,100
Alfred Reginald Thompson, ‘First Time at The Box,’ £22,100

Alfred Reginald Thompson, ‘First Time at The Box,’ £22,100

STANSTED MOUNTFITCHET, U.K. – An oil painting of Britain’s first female prime minister addressing the House of Commons for the first time sold at Sworders Fine Art Auctioneers on October 4 for £22,100. The buyer and underbidder were both based in America, bidding via the telephone.

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Tudor-era swan-keeping book to take flight at Sworders, Aug. 23

Swan Mark Registers of Owners, two volumes, both dating to the 16th century, est. £8,000-£16,000
Swan Mark Registers of Owners, two volumes, both dating to the 16th century, est. £8,000-£16,000
Swan Mark Registers of Owners, two volumes, both dating to the 16th century, est. £8,000-£16,000

STANSTED MOUNTFITCHET, U.K. –  A Tudor manuscript designed to help with swan-keeping in the era when mute swans were owned by the English crown comes to auction in the summer. The two-volume manuscript in Sworders’ August 23 sale of Books and Maps was used from the 16th to the 19th century by landowners in Norfolk and Suffolk. This example, consigned from the estate of Cambridgeshire antiques dealer Peter Croft (1924-2001), is estimated at £8,000-£16,000. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.

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Tiny, ancient Buddhist bronze claims $343K at Sworders

A tiny, centuries-old Buddhist bronze figure created in northeastern India sold for £273,000 (about $343,800) on May 13. Image courtesy of Sworders Fine Art Auctioneers
A tiny, centuries-old Buddhist bronze figure created in northeastern India sold for £273,000 (about $343,800) on May 13. Image courtesy of Sworders Fine Art Auctioneers

A tiny, centuries-old Buddhist bronze figure created in northeastern India sold for £273,000 (about $343,800) on May 13. Image courtesy of Sworders Fine Art Auctioneers

STANSTED MOUNTFICHET, UK – A 900-year-old bronze figure of a Buddhist deity smashed all expectations to bring £273,000 (about US$343,800) during an Asian art sale at Sworders Fine Art Auctioneers on May 13. The diminutive figure of the four-faced, eight-armed goddess Amoghapasa (a name that means wisdom giver) had been consigned from a private source with modest hopes. The Buddha was found in the bottom of a box of miscellaneous metalware by Sworders Asian art specialist Yexue Li. The seller, who was described as “shell-shocked,” has subsequently invited specialists back to their house to look through further items.

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