Pair of George III Mahogany Knife Boxes
60 x 39 x 31 cm
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Provenance
The Lords Deramore, Heslington Hall, North Yorkshire. By descent to Lord Mowbray and Stourton.Strung with ebony, the oval panelled revolving drum containers enclosing graduated and pierced tiers within part fluted turned tapering uprights with Ionic capitals and panther mask headers, and with rising fluted reeded beaded and finialed circular canopies, on hairy paw feet.
Heslington Hall:
The Yarburgh family lived at Heslington Hall, an Elizabethan house which was restored in the Victorian times by Philip Hardwick. During the eighteenth century the family lived the typical life of Yorkshire squires, coming to notice when a daughter married the architect and playwright, Sir John Vanbrugh. In 1862, Elizabeth de Yarburgh married George Bateson, later second Baron Deramore of Belvoir Park, Belfast, and they joined the two family names together – Yarburgh-Bateson. Heslington Hall was sold in 1962 and is now the Senate House of York University.