Lot 124
An early Victorian monumental campana-shaped vase
John Samuel Hunt, London 1848-49
Auction: 23 November 2008 at 15:00 GMT
Description
the rock work and scroll base on four shell and scroll work feet, C-scroll supports and engraved crest to one panel, inscription to another, with a naturalistic base with vine tendrils crossed and knotted supporting the campana-shaped cooler of open form with vine leaves and bunches of grapes, similar cast vine leaf border, with a ruby glass liner (2)
67cm high, 39cm diameter, 472oz
Footnote
The base with a crest and armorial for
The other two cartouches engraved;
'Presented on the 22nd June 1853 by the electors of the Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth to the Right Honourable Charles Tennyson D'Eyncourt their representative for twenty years in the first five Parliaments After their disenfranchisement in 1832'
and;
'A tribute of affectionate attachment and esteem for his private worth of respect for his patriotic and independent character and of gratitude for his able consistent and faithful services in the cause of civil religious commercial freedom throughout a Parliamentary career of thirty four years'
George Tennyson (His father) owned about one third of the land at Tealby. He lived at the original thatched Bayons Manor until 1833, two years before his death. His second son, Charles, persuaded him to add a codicil to his will so that he could be called Charles Tennyson d'Eyncourt, and claim descendancy from Norman Barons. Charles was an M.P. for 34 years. After his father's death he took seven years to build the sixty-roomed Romantic Gothic styled Bayons Manor at enormous cost. Charles died in 1861. His descendants lived at Bayons until the Second World War. It was occupied by troops during the war and was sold in 1944. After many years of neglect it was finally blown up in 1964
See Christie's, London, 12th May 1993, lot 49 for a very similar but smaller vase