Lot 153
LATE REGENCY MAHOGANY OCCASIONAL TABLE, OF ROYAL INTEREST
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Auction: Day One | Wednesday 18 Feb at 10am | Lots 1 to 352
Description
of diminutive size, the rectangular top with a green leather insert, raised on tapered end supports with scroll brackets carved with roundels, joined by a turned stretcher and ending on trestle bases raised on turned feet with sunken brass castors; stamped to the underside CLAREMONT
Dimensions
58cm wide, 57cm high, 40cm deep
Footnote
Claremont is an 18th century Palladian mansion in Surrey. The original house was designed by Sir John Vanburgh but it was sold to ‘Clive of India’ in 1769, who found the house out of fashion and had it demolished and redesigned by Capability Brown, better known as a landscape designer. In the late 18th and early 19th century the house passed through a succession of owners, and in 1816 it was bought as a wedding present for the Prince Regent's daughter, Princess Charlotte and her husband, Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg. Queen Victoria was a regular visitor to Claremont, both as a child and an adult. In 1882 Queen Victoria bought Claremont for her youngest son, Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, upon his marriage to Princess Helena of Waldeck and Prymont. They had two children, Alice and Charles. In 1900 Charles inherited the title Duke of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, and he moved to Germany to take the throne, becoming a German citizen. Due to Charles becoming a German general in the First World War the British Government disallowed his inheritance of Claremont and it was sold to the shipping magnate Sir William Corry, director of the Cunard Line. By 1930 the house was empty and marked for demolition, when it was bought by the governors of a south London School. It is now Claremont Fan School and the gardens are run by the National Trust.