Lot 66
AN INDO-PORTUGUESE MOTHER-OF-PEARL VASE
INDIA, GUJARAT, 17TH CENTURY
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Auction: 11 December 2024 from 10:00 GMT
Description
of pear-shape on a flat base with vertical short neck, formed of geometric mother-of-pearl sections in vertical radial lines, four brass bands with repeat circular motifs
Dimensions
12.7cm high
Provenance
Select Property from Penicuik House, Midlothian, Scotland.
Penicuik Estate, situated to the south-west of Edinburgh at the foot of the Pentlands, has been owned by the Clerk family since the middle of the 17th century. In 1654 the merchant John Clerk (1611-1674), who had made his fortune in Paris, purchased the Estate with the existing house Newbiggin from the heirs of Margaret Scott, the Countess of Eglinton. In 1647 John Clerk married Mary Gray, fourth daughter of Sir William Gray of Pittendrum by whom he had five sons and five daughters. He married for a second time in 1670 to Elizabeth Johnston, and upon his death he was succeeded by his eldest son, John Clerk, who became the 1st Baronet in 1679.
