A gold toothpick case, Andrew Hogg, London, 1779
Lot Closed
May 26, 12:52 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A gold toothpick case, Andrew Hogg
London, 1779
of oblong shape, the lid engraved with the initials KH in an oval, between two oval rosettes, interlaced floral border, the side engraved with the inscription: the Gift of the Miss Dashwoods on the Death of Mrs Sophia Dashwood Jan.y 1827, the base similarly decorated and centred with the initials AW, the interior of the lid with a mirror, maker's mark AH in a rectangle, British lion passant, London leopard's head, date letter for 1819, in original velvet-lined fishskin case
9.1cm., 3 5/8 in. wide
2
Christie's, London, 8 December 2011, lot 182
AOL Mail (720) The inscription reads: 'the Gift of the Miss Dashwoods [sic] on the Death of Mrs. Sophia Dashwood Jany. 1827.'
Died 'At Chislehurst, Kent, on the 1st instant [1 December 1826], Sophia Dashwood, youngest daughter of the late Samuel Dashwood, Esq., of Well Hall Lincolnshire, aged 78.' (The News, London, Monday, 11 December 1826, p. 8b)
Sophia Dashwood was the daughter of Samuel Dashwood (1720? - 26 January 1793) of Well Hall (otherwise known as Well Vale Hall), https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/gallery/lincolnshire-mansion-for-sale-london-4212857 Alford, Lincolnshire, and his wife Anne, daughter of James Bateman of Well Hall.
The Misses Dashwood referred to in the inscription on this box were Diana Elizabeth Dashwood (1766-1842), Sophia Dashwood (1773-1853) and Charlotte Dashwood (1784?-1852), nieces and residuary legatees of the above-mentioned Sophia Dashwood. In a codicil of the latter's will, signed on 20 January 1826, Miss Dashwood wrote, 'And Whereas I have some time since given to my three Nieces Diana Elizabeth Dashwood Sophia Dashwood and Charlotte Dashwood the whole of my trinkets Books and other moveable Effects I hereby make it my particular request to them that they will present some Article to be selected at their discretion to my dear friend John Popple Esq and also to my friend Mrs. Jane Seymer as tokens of my friendship and regard for them'. (National Archives, Kew PROB 11/1719)
John Popple of East Burham House, Burham, Buckinghamshire died at the age of 80 on 2 September 1831. Among many other bequests he left the three Dashwood sisters 'my four chase [sic] silver candlesticks with a Phoenix Cross [sic] on them one Dozen and an half of Silver forks my four large Silver chase [sic] waiters with the Phoenix Arms my silver chase [sic] coffee pot four Silver night candlesticks two with my own arms on them and two marked A my two red set of India china and my desert set of China at East Burnham'. (Will proved 30 September 1831, National Archives, Kew PROB 11/1790)
The Mrs. Jane Seymer mentioned in the codicil of Sophia Dashwood's will was most likely the lady of that name who was born on 21 March 1761 and died at her house in Park Street, Bath, Somerset on 20 January 1838. She left the bulk of her estate to to her sister-in-law, Alicia Seymer (d,. 1862). (National Archives, Kew PROB 11/1891)
Andrew Hogg, son of Alexander Hogg, yeoman of Aberdeen, was apprenticed for a term of seven years on 15 September 1742 to Joseph Barker, Citizen and Draper of the City of London. (Grimwade, p. 549; London Metropolitan Archives ELJ:/735/2 and 3) Richard Edgcumbe, The Art of the Gold Chaser in Eighteenth-Century London (Oxford, 2000, pp. 46-47) states that Barker by trade was a silversmith and that Hogg, who gained his freedom in 1749, was a jeweller and goldsmith in Great Russell Street where in 1770 he took an apprentice, Samuel, son of Thomas Riley, an engraver of St. Andrew, Holborn. By the time of the Parliamentary Report of 1773, Hogg was at Northumberland Court, Strand. For further comment, see 'The Rothschild Chinoiserie Necessaire,' https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6124033 Christie's, New York, 6 December 2017, lot 258.
You May Also Like
