A highly unusual English Antique Edwardian solid sterling silver table box, having rectangular shaped body which was made to celebrate the Coronation of His Majesty King Edward VII. The panels are beautifully embossed with Art Nouveau patterns to the lid and back panel with an Egyptian scene to the front panel, Jesus on the side panel and the Kings Crown and Crossed Sceptres with the Edward VII 1902 on the other side, fitted with a hinged lid and is fitted with an camel to the centre for opening.
Postcard June 23, 1902 from Stella Anderson talking about being busy with decorations for the coronation of King Edward VII on June 26th .
Sent to Rona Lucas at the Hotel de France de D’oug le Terra Royal les Bains. The One penny stamp features King Edward. The coronation had to be put off until August 9th because the King fell ill.
The hotel actually oopened in1909 and Edward was supposed to be one of the first guests, but he died in 1910.
Coronation casket of King Edward VII, collection of the Yuko Nii Foundation
Coronation casket cover with silver bullion of King Edward VII, collection of the Yuko Nii Foundation in the Empress of India cabinet.
Silver coronation box Makers, Assay office & Date Hallmark: Mappin & Webb (Registered December 1899), London and 1901. Mappin & Webb has held Royal Warrants to British monarchs since 1897. The company's master craftsman Mark Appleby is the current Crown Jeweller of the United Kingdom. Queen Elizabeth II renewed the Royal Warrant.
INDIAN MINIATURE PAINTING HONORING THE CORONATION
George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 1738 – 29 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820. The Acts of Union 1800 unifiedGreat Britain and Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with George as its king. He was concurrently Duke and Prince- elector of Hanover in the Holy Roman Empire before becoming King of Hanover on 12 October 1814. He was a monarch of the House of Hanover, who, unlike his two predecessors, was born in Great Britain, spoke English as his first language,[1] and never visited Hanover.[2]ver, who, unlike his two predecessors, was born in Great Britain, spoke English as his first language,[1] and never visited Hanover.[2]
George was born during the reign of his paternal grandfather, King George II, as the first son of Frederick, Prince of Wales, and Princess Augusta of Saxe- Gotha.
Following his father's death in 1751, Prince George became heir apparent and Prince of Wales. He succeeded to the throne on George II's death in 1760. The following year, he married Princess Charlotte of MecklenburgStrelitz, with whom he had 15 children. George III's life and reign were marked by a series of military conflicts involving his kingdoms, much of the rest of Europe, and places farther afield in Africa, the Americas and Asia. Early in his reign, Great Britain defeated France in the Seven Years' War, becoming the dominant European power in North America and India. However, Britain lost 13 of its North American colonies in the American War of Independence. Further wars against revolutionary and Napoleonic France from 1793 concluded in the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. In 1807, the transatlantic slave trade was banned from the British Empire.
Vermeil Sugar spoon of Queen Adelaide of Great Britain
Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (Adelaide Amelia Louise Theresa Caroline; 13 August 1792 – 2 December 1849) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Queen of Hanover from 26 June 1830 to 20 June 1837 as the wife of King William IV. Adelaide was the daughter of George I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, and Luise Eleonore of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia, is named after her.
Collection Yuko Nii Foundation: Odiot Vermeil Sllver, Demidov pattern, ex-collection Sir John Antoniadis, Built in the nineteenth century as a miniature Versailles by the wealthy Greek-Egyptian magnate Sir John Antoniadis. Villa Antoniadis is just one of the many jewels which Alexandria, the Pearl of the Mediterranean, has to display. On this spot the Roman general Pompilius prevented an attack upon the city by the king of Syria. On the same spot, the victorious general Amr Ibn Al-As pitched camp before taking the city and then the whole of Egypt.
Collection Yuko Nii Foundation: Odiot vermeil sweetmeat dish. The crown indicates it was probably made for someone in line to be king.
Collection Yuko Nii Foundation
Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte gave Jean-Baptiste Claude, grandson of Jean-Baptiste Gaspard, many prestigious commissions for himself and his family, such as the sacred scepter and sword and the King of Rome's cradle. Immense dinner services were ordered by Pauline Borghèse, by her mother and by the Emperor himself.
Jean-Baptiste Claude was influenced by the return of the classical Greek and Egyptian motifs as expressed in the Directoire and Empire styles. Court commissions help further the reputation of Maison Odiot, and the firm provided vermeil services to courts across European.
Charles Nicolas Odiot, who excelled in the rocaille style, succeeded his father and became the purveyor by appointment to His Majesty the King Louis-Philippe and to the Royal Family of Orleans. He was later succeeded by his son Gustave who received the House of Odiot's most important commission ever, id est, 3,000 pieces of solid gold flatware for Saïd Pacha, the Viceroy of Egypt. He later became the purveyor by appointment to the court of His Imperial Majesty the Tsar. Gustave was also the last member of the Odiot family to preside over the company.
Invoice to Salicetti from Odiot for shipment from Paris to Turin Italy c1804 collection of YNF
The Salicetti mentioned in this 1804 invoice (was commissioned to organize the French Revolutionary Army in 1796 in the Italian Peninsula, and the two départements into which Corsica had been divided after its recapture. Saliceti also became deputy to the Council of the Five Hundred, and served the Directory in missions to the Ligurian Republic.[1] Saliceti represented France during the negotiations with the Papal States regarding the Armistice of Bologna. Although an adversary of Napoleon's 18 Brumaire Coup which created the Consulate (9 November 1799), he was kept by Napoleon as his representative to the Republic of Lucca (1801– 1802) and Liguria (1805), engineering the territory's annexation to the Empire. In 1806, he followed Joseph Bonaparte to the Kingdom of Naples, where Joseph had been imposed as King, and served as minister of police and of war. Saliceti died in Naples in mysterious circumstances, possibly poisoned.
Duchess of Northumberland 1883
The Duke of Northumberland: Northumberland attended Eton College. He owned 186,000 acres with 181,000 in Northumberland and the remainder in Surrey, Middlesex and Durham.
Northumberland sat in the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Bere Alston between 1831 and 1832 and for Northumberland North between 1852 and 1865. He served Civil Lord of the Admiralty between 1858 and 1859 and as Paymaster General and Vice-President of the Board of Trade in 1859[5] in Lord Derby's second government. The latter year he was also sworn of the Privy Council.
Victorian Elkington Shield Collection Yuko Nii Foundation
A Victorian Elkington & Co electrotype Milton shield of oval form with ropetwist edge, the panels embossed with scenes from John Milton's Paradise Lost within gilt enriched borders with relief cabochon detail, the outer edge signed 'Morel Ladeuil Fecit 1866' and 'Elkington & Co', the reverse with applied oval plaque, detailed 'Department of Science & Art, Elkington' framing a crowned 'VR' cypher, length 85.5cm, width 64.8cm. Note: the original Milton shield was produced in silver and iron by the eminent French silver designer Leonard Morel-Ladeuil (circa 1820-1888). The renowned artist worked for Elkington & Co from 1859 and began work on the shield in 1864 with the express intention of exhibiting it at the Paris Exhibition of 1867. The shield received an enormously enthusiastic response where it was awarded the gold medal and the Art Journal declared it the best object exhibited that year. The Victoria and Albert Museum purchased the shield from the exhibition for the huge sum of 2000 francs, where it remains on display in room 122 of the British Galleries. Electrotype samples, such as the present Lot, are kept in other important museum collections, such as the Met Museum in New York and The Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences in Sydney.
