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The Hooton Pagnell tureens by James Young, 1785, 46oz Mary Cooke Antiques Ltd
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he sweeping neo-classical lines of these George III ‘boat’ tureens typify the elegant restraint of the 18th century London silversmith James
Young. Young’s finely finished work is quite scarce to- day, and his epergnes (table centrepieces) are particu- larly sought after. These tureens, with an unusual band of flat fluting around the body, were made for Hooton Pagnell Hall near Doncaster, home to the Warde fam- ily for over 300 years. The front and reverse of the body of each tureen is engraved with an armorial and the high domed cov-
John William Godward, ‘A Garland Seller, Rome’, 1914, oil on canvas, diameter 89cm Trinity House Paintings
he great sadness for the British painter John William Godward (1861-1922) was that he was born 30 years too late. His romantic Neo-Clas-
sical style was all the rage in the mid to late 19th cen- tury, the era of Frederic, Lord Leighton (1830-1896) and Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912). By the time this circular oil on canvas, titled ‘A Garland Sell- er, Rome’, was completed in 1914, Alma Tadema was two years dead and such classically inspired paint- ings were already considered old fashioned. However, fashion is fickle and in recent years, there has been a resurgence of interest for the exquisitely painted works of both Alma-Tadema and Godward. “This work is representative of the work of the group of painters sometimes called the Marble School, with the classical setting calling back to Ancient Greece, depicting the girl as a Hellenic goddess. The Ancient worlds of Greece and Rome were viewed as a past idyll, an age of beauty and certainty” says Georgia Hughes of Trinity House Paintings, which exhibits the
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ers are also engraved twice with a crest. The arms and crest are those of Warde of Doncaster, impaling those of Cooke, also of Doncaster, in this case for St. Andrew Warde of Hooton Pagnall Hall and his wife Mary Ann, daughter of Anthony Cooke, of Owston, County York, younger son of one of the Cooke Baronets. In December 2015, Bonhams’ sold the contents of
Hooton Pagnell, nearly 2000 lots spanning Old Mas- ter paintings, English furniture, ceramics, Chinese works of art, manuscripts, books and silver, includ- ing these tureens. The sale was instigated by the cur- rent owner, Mark Warde-Norbury, who on inheriting the house found room upon room crammed with the eclectic accumulations of three centuries of inveter- ate collectors.
painting. The sitter, known as ‘Dolcissmia’, represents a sort of exotic sensuality akin to Helen of Troy or Phryne, emphasised by the lavish drapery of her dress, rosy cheeks and wistful gaze.
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