Live Auction 15785The Collection of Paul F. Walter
IN THE STYLE OF BRUCE TALBERT (1838-1881)
Lot 264

IN THE STYLE OF BRUCE TALBERT (1838-1881)

A MID-VICTORIAN GOTHIC REVIVAL DINNER GONG, CIRCA 1865

Closed27 September 2017

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IN THE STYLE OF BRUCE TALBERT (1838-1881)
A MID-VICTORIAN GOTHIC REVIVAL DINNER GONG, CIRCA 1865
polychrome oak, brass, the gong beater later
46 ½ in. (118 cm.) high, 28 in. (71 cm.) wide, 17 ½ in. (45 cm.) deep
with an enamel label for 'Maple & Co./Upholsterers/Tottenham Court Road/London'

The Earl of Iveagh, Elveden Hall, Norfolk House Sale; Christie's, London, 21-24 May 1984, lot 1343.

Specialist note

Maharaja Duleep Singh Sukerchakia (d. 1893) was the last Maharaja of Sikh Raj. He was exiled to London in 1854, after being dethroned and his country annexed by the British Raj in 1849. Duleep Singh was welcomed into the European court by Queen Victoria. He bought Elveden in 1863 and proceeded to transform the estate into an efficient game preserve and the house into an Oriental palace where he lived the life of a British aristocrat.