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AN EXTREMELY RARE AND FINELY CARVED LATE 18TH-CENTURY LIMEWOOD ALLEGORICAL FIGUREHEAD MODEL FOR THE HOPE depicted as a full-length female stepping forward and dressed in a delicately carved wind-swept dress, necklace, curled hair with hat, holding an anchor supported over her knee with her left hand, her right holding the cable, set on a scroll-worked presentation bow with cut-away head rails behind, finished in original polychrome overall, secured to a later display plinth - 13 1/4 in. (33.5cm.) high. Although there are several Royal Navy ships of this name around the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, none are of a suitable size to adorn with such a lavish figurehead. The strongest candidate is the Hon. East India Company who, in 1797, launched the Hope. Built by Thomas Pitcher of Northfleet for Alexander Hume, she registered 1,498 tons burthen, measured 144`3" by 43`10" and drew 17`5" of water. Captained by James Horncastle until 1804 and James Pendergrass thereafter, she served mostly on the China run until sold for break up in 1815. Another example of an East India Co. allegorical polychrome figurehead model may be viewed at Quex Park, Birchington, Kent as part of the Powell-Cotton collection. It was probably acquired by Charles Bowland Cotton who joined as a Midshipman in 1794. The only comparable carving of this type to come on the market recently is the Queen Charlotte model sold by Messrs Bonham`s: Nelson & The Royal Navy, 5th July, 2005, lot 28 (£50,000).
PITCHER ERNEST: (1888-1946) British Royal Navy Officer, Victoria Cross recipient for his actions on board HMS Dunraven in the Atlantic on 8th August 1917. Vintage signed postcard photograph showing several ships at sea, with a circular inset portrait of Pitcher in a head and shoulders pose wearing his uniform. Signed (`E. Pitcher, VC`) in blue fountain pen ink to a light area of the image. VG
Attributed to Richard Westall RA 1765-1836- A young girl filling a pitcher in a stream; watercolour, within ink drawn lines, an adolescent work, 21x18cm: William Hal Gray c. 1820-1995- "Bou Church"; watercolour, signed: together with three other 19th century watercolour studies to include attributed to Edgar John Varley 1785-1858- Cart and horses on a rural track", watercolour in monochrome; In the Woods Totnes, Devon" by a different and other similar studies, (unframed) (a lot)
* Beresford (Cecilia Melanie, active 1865-1892). Italian woman with pitcher, watercolour on paper, signed and dated 1881, 44 x 28cm (17.25 x 11ins), gilt frame, glazed, together with Man in Italian costume, watercolour on paper, signed, and inscribed `fecit Romae 1860`, 28 x 17.5cm (11 x 7ins), gilt frame, glazed, plus one other study of an Italian peasant figure resting on a staff, watercolour, signed, some overall toning, 45 x 28.5cm (17.75 x 11.25ins), old beaded gilt frame, glazed (3)
Circle of Francis Wheatley R.A. A girl fetching water from a stream a cottage beyond Oil on panel 25.5 x 20cm; 10 x 8in Provenance: Samuel Day of Hinton House Hinton Charterhouse (1757-1806) Mary Day his widow till 1846 Thomas Jones (1788-1848) who inherited the estate from her Edward Talbot Day Jones (1837-1911) and thence by descent to the present owner Literature: Inventory of all the Household… including Paintings at Hinton Charterhouse the Property of the Late Thomas Jones made August 23rd-28th 1848 by English and Sons Bath referred to as: Small Landscape with Woman dipping up a pitcher of water

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