ADAM'S - SILVER FROM THE COLLECTION OF JIMMY WELDON May 16th 2017 (Click Lot title for more images and to Place Bid)

Silver from the Collection of Jimmy Weldon

contained in a modern fitted stamped leather box:

1.A smoky quartz triangular swivel seal with crest, coronet and motto,

and a display of arms. 4cm wide, gold mount

2.A smoky quartz fob intaglio with monogram and viscount’s coronet.

2.5cm, gold mount

3.A bloodstone fob intaglio with the display of arms. 2cm, gold mount

4. A desk seal with bloodstone handle, the intaglio with crest and vis-

count’s coronet. 6.5cm, gold mount. (4)

€ 8,000 - 12,000

These seals were commissioned by/for MervynWingfield, SeventhVis-

count Powerscourt (1836-1904, married Julia Coke, daughter of the

Second Earl of Leicester). He remodelled Powerscourt and laid out the

gardens as we know them today.He collected old master paintings,con-

tinental furniture, bronze and marble statuary and militaria. He wrote

The History of Powerscourt

, the illustrations of which show an interior of

great sumptuousness, all of which was destroyed by fire in 1974.