Valuable objects of vertu
Publisher: Sotheby's
Published: 1936
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Notes: Sale code: ELM.

Comprising gold boxes and Renaissance jewels. Fine miniatures by or attributed to Peter Oliver, Samuel Cooper, John Hoskins, Lawrence Crosse, Charles Boit, Nathaniel Hone, John Smart, Richard Cosway, and Robert Field, including the property of Lady Edith Fox Pitt; and twenty-eight miniatures (said to have belonged to King George IV), the joint property of the Rt. Hon. Lord Fairhaven, and Captain the Hon. H.R. Broughton. Nelson relics and memorials, the property of Mrs. Nevill Jackson, including C.A. Pugin's drawing of his funeral, a fine small model of H.M.S. victory, the property of H. Wilkinson Guillemard, Esq., C.S.I., C.I.E. Embroideries and textiles, including a fine Stuart purse, the property of Sir Piers Mostyn, Brt.; Elizabethan needlework caps, the property of the Rt. Hon. Lord Inchiquin; rare Oriental rugs, the property of F.W. Bruce, Esq.; Stuart needlework pictures, ecclesiastical vestments, etc.

Place of sale: London.

Date of sale: June 25, 1936.