The surtout de table UPDATE: IT SOLD FOR £18,750 at hammer
The surtout de table of the Marquesses of Ormonde originating from Kilkenny Castle is among the lots at Sotheby’s Of Royal and Noble Descent sale in London on February 24. Attributed to the London jewellery firm of Rundell Bridge and Rundell it dates to 1805 and is made in the French Empire Taste then fashionable. Sotheby’s say it was most probably made for Walter Butler (1770-1820), 1st Marquess of Ormonde, 18th Earl of Ormonde, and his wife Anna Maria Catherine Clarke. Ormonde was an important patron of Royal Goldsmiths Rundell Bridge and Rundell and commissioned a fine silver dinner service in 1808. Part of this was allocated in 1982 to the Royal Pavilion at Brighton by the English government.
Divided into five mirrored sections and measuring 8’4” in length the surtout is estimated at £8,000-12,000. The pierced gallery on paw feet below a cast double coronet is interspaced by plaques with the coat of arms for the Marquesses of Ormonde. The sellers are descendants of the Marquesses of Ormonde. It will be sold among 250 exceptional royal and aristocratic heirlooms originating from the four corners of the world.