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Click here to subscribeA Lucie Rie stoneware bottle vase purchased from Albion Mews, ovoid with slender neck and flaring rim, glazed with a spiral blue, lavender and brown pitted glaze impressed LR mark 30cm. high. Provenance: Purchased from Lucie Rie at her Albion Mews studio 1982-83, sold with two photocopied letters from Lucie Rie to the vendor. Literature: Tony Birks Lucie Rie Alpha books page 183 for a comparable vase
A Loetz glass vase designed by Michael Powolny, ribbed amber body with black rim, on three applied black glass ball feet unmarked 16cm. high. Literature: Sotheby's New Bond Street The Pursuit of Style, John Jesse at Kensington Church Street, 22nd February 2006, lot 108 for a comparable vase. Hatje Cantz Loetz Neue Gallerie, page 322 catalogue number C54 for the same shape.
The Grand National Trophy of 1910: in the form of a large silver-gilt vase & cover by Elkington & Company, hallmarked Birmingham, 1909, the body engraved THE GRAND NATIONAL TROPHY 1910, flanked by two classical female figures of victory, the cover surmounted by a model of the Greek mythological winged horse Pegasus ridden by the hero Bellerophon, the neck of the vase further modelled with Pegasus decoration, the reverse of the body inscribed WON BY MR. STANLEY HOWARD'S JENKINSTOWN, REPRESENTED BY TOPHAMS LTD IN 1974 AS THE ANNUAL CHALLENGE TROPHY FOR THE TOPHAM TROPHY CHASE, the lower neck and base rim ornamentation further inscribed with details of the winners of the Topham Trophy from 1974 to 1982, in a fitted wooden carry case, with key, overall height 81cm., 32in., width 38cm., 15in. Jenkinstown was bred in County Meath by Mr P. Leonard in Ireland in 1901 by Hackler out of Playmate. His sire was a moderate winner on the flat but Hackler proved a very successful sire He was a difficult horse to get fit and would appear to have suffered from health issues. His masterful trainer Thomas Coulthwaite, based at Hednesford in Staffordshire, said "he needed the work of four animals." But with a light weight Coulthwaite pulled of a notable success when Jenkinstown won the 1910 Grand National under a ride from Robert Chadwick. Mr Stanley McKnight Howard's gelding never won another race and indeed fell in two subsequent Grand Nationals. Howard had previously won the Grand National with Eremon in 1907. This trophy was re-acquired by Tophams Ltd in the 1970s and was then used annually as the challenge trophy for the Topham Chase run over one circuit of the Grand National course between 1974 and 1982.
The trophy for the 1881 Chesterfield Cup at Goodwood: in the form of a Victorian silver sculptural group by Hunt & Roskell titled 'Sir Roger de Coverley and the Gypsies, Spectator,' hallmarked London, 1881, modelled with Sir Roger dismounted from his horse and having his palm read by the older of two gypsy women, in front of two dogs besides a suspended cauldron, all on a naturalistic base with a title plaque, on a large ebonised plinth set with a plaque inscribed GOODWOOD, 1881, with the original oak fitted carrying case bearing a printed paper label for Hunt & Roskell/Storr & Mortimer, with key, the group 37cm., 14 1/2in. high, 47cm., 18 1/2in. long and 34cm., 13 1/2in. wide. Sir Roger de Coverley was the name of a character by Addison in The Spectator published in 1711. An English squire of Queen Anne's reign, Sir Roger exemplified the values of an old country gentleman, and was portrayed as lovable but somewhat ridiculous ("rather beloved than esteemed," to quote from the text), and making his Tory politics seem harmless but silly. He is said to be the grandson of the man who invented the Coverley, an English and Scottish country dance with its steps reminiscent of a hunted fox going in an out of cover. The modelling of this sculptural group is based on Sir Roger's essay XVII in The Spectator when Sir Roger whilst riding out with a friend encounters two gypsy women, where upon his palm is read and the bachelor told that "... he is dearer to someone than he thinks." This same literary incident had earlier inspired the artist Charles Robert Leslie R.A. (1794-1859), born in London to an American family from Maryland, who exhibited a picture with this subject to kind reviews in 1829. Additionally, a similar group to the present sculpture is described in the 1851 Great Exhibition catalogue listed under 111 of the works in precious metals section designed and manufactured by Joseph Angell of the Strand. Hunt & Roskell's trophy was presented as the prize for the 1881 running of the Chesterfield Cup (Handicap) at the main Goodwood July festival meeting and was won Mr Henry Bragg's four-year-old colt Victor Emanuel ridden by John Osborne. The trophy was valued at 300 sovs. in the Racing Calendar and this was the prize for the victory, there were no cash winnings. It is typical of the high Victoriana offered as trophies on the racecourse at this period, particularly for the major races at Royal Ascot, Goodwood and the Doncaster St Leger meeting. Nearly always a horse forms part of the design but very often not in any sporting context. Literary inspiration, as is the case here, was often a favourite choice of designers. The winner of the race was Victor Emanuel, a son of the stallion Albert Victor who had finished second in both the Derby and St Leger but was the winner of many good races including the Middle Park Stakes, the Ascot Gold Vase and the Great Ebor Handicap. Victor Emanuel carried 8st. 5lb. and won the race by a length at odds of 100 to 6. PROVENANCE: Mr Henry Bragg, the winning racehorse owner of the 1881 Chesterfield Cup, Goodwood, and thence by family descent.
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