A FRAMED SECTION OF PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD STUART'S ORDER OF THE GARTER SASH
Auction: Day 1: Wednesday 20 August - Lots 1 - 296
Description
the blue watered silk with zig zag cut edges, in a later frame
Dimensions
Ribbon 9.3cm wide, frame 11cm x 7.5cm
Provenance
Given to Lord Ogilvie by Prince Charles Edward Stuart
By direct descent
Property from the Earls of Airlie
Footnote
Along with the Order of the Thistle breast badge the Garter sash is a reminder, in portrait representations, of Prince Charles's position and power. Such high levels of chivalry cemented his claim and right to the throne, and demonstrated his just cause.
The largest surviving section, some 4 feet in length, latterly from the Duchess of Gordon collection, is now housed at Brodie Castle, and was featured in The Swords and the Sorrows exhibition, National Trust for Scotland, Culloden, 16th April – 20th September 1996, item 8:4 (part). Other sections which appear to have been cut from the same ribbon are within the collection of the National Museum of Scotland (H.NC57, gifted by Gilbert Innes, in 1798). Examples sold include Jacobite, Stuart, and Scottish Applied Arts, Lyon & Turnbull, 13th May 2015, lot 16 and Scottish Works of Art & Whisky, Lyon & Turnbull, 17th August 2022, lot 372.