Three English enamel patch boxes

Three English enamel patch boxes, late 18th/early 19th century, one painted with a man smoking a long pipe beside a large beer barrel, another printed with a woman skating on a frozen pond, the last with a jockey riding a horse and titled 'Ecclipse' [sic], some cracking and restoration, 5.1cm max. (3)

Provenance: from the estate of the late Barry Lock.

The racehorse, Eclipse, was born during the solar eclipse of 1764 and bred by the Duke of Cumberland. He went on to have an illustrious career and was undefeated until his retirement to stud in 1771. He died of colic in Middlesex in 1789 and his skeleton is on display at the Jockey Club Museum in Newmarket.