Furniture & Works of Art - 7th October 2014

Lot 382

A Louis Phillippe ormolu desk paperweight

Estimate £400 - £600 | Hammer £480

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Description

A Louis Phillippe ormolu desk paperweight, decorated with a bands of palmettes and with a pegasus finial, applied with a portrait bust silhouette signed 'Held H. Skand' and with a plaque inscribed 'En Memoire du Comte Simon Woronzow le 21 Juin 1832', 6.4cm high, 12cm wide, 7cm deep.

Count Semyon Romanovich Vorontsov (1744-1832) was Russian Ambassador to the United Kingdom (1785-1806). He remained in England until his death. He was the brother of Princess Dashkov who took part in the coup d' etat which placed Catherine the Great on the throne. His daughter,Catherine, married George Herbert the 11th Earl of Pembroke.