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One of Eltham’s oldest residents
One of Eltham’s oldest residents will be returning home after a break of
more than 60 years.
The 
resident in question is a 500 who was related by marriage. Butler left out, but Sotheby's have held onto
year old plate and the place put them up for auction in 1975 to raise it since 1975. As with all legal matters,
is Eltham Palace. cash, but for some reason, the roundel the situation eventually came to a point
was left out of the sale. where the executors of the Courtauld
From next year the Maiolica roundel, Curator Annie Kemkaran-Smith said: estate wanted to give it back to Eltham
made at the Caffagiolo pottery north "We don’t know why the roundel was Palace.”
of Florence, will take pride of place in
a display case at the entrance to the All of the other pieces were dispersed
Italian Drawing Room in the Palace’s around the world but the tin-glazed
Courtauld wing. earthenware plate went into
storage where it remained
Its return is thanks to until English Heritage
patient work by English started to negotiate its
Heritage which rescued return to Eltham.
the plate from years of
legal limbo in storage The plate depicts
at London auction the Mary, Joseph
house Sotheby’s. and baby Jesus
surrounded by
The plate’s problems traditional symbols,
began after Stephen including scenes
Courtauld died of dereliction and
in the 1960s. The a monkey tied to a
Courtaulds had left tree.
the Palace in the war
for Scotland en route for Its importance to the
Rhodesia. Palace is that nearly all
the furnishings are not
In all, there were 30 pieces original but were re-created
in his ceramic collection, all for the building’s opening in
of which were bequeathed to 1999.
Conservative politician, ‘Rab’ Butler,
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