This Georgian Irish silver epergne sold for €60,480 at Christie’s in Paris. It was once in the Cork collection of the Newenham family. Brigadier General Henry Edward Berkeley Newenham (1866-1934) was the son of William Henry Newenham, of Maryborough Park, co. Cork, a branch of the Newenhams of Coolmore. He was educated at Haileybury and served in the Royal Fusiliers, fighting in the Boer War and the First World War. He commanded the first landing of men at Galliopoli where he was wounded, losing a leg. In retirement he served as mayor of Lymington, Hampshire. His sale in 1902 was formed from a collection of Irish and English silver. The family house Maryborough Park was sold by his father in 1889 and is now a hotel.
It was of the sale of the collection “Le Grand Style: An apartment on the Quai d’Orsay designed by Alberto Pinto” .
