The Contents Of West Marden Hall West Marden, Near Chichester, West Sussex.
In pictorial card wrapper protected by plastic cover. A very good copy.
£15.00
Details
POSSIBLE SMUGGLING LINK
Publisher
Sotheby's, 34-35 New Bond Street, W1A 2AA.,
Place
London
Date
1991
Synopsis
Including english and continental furniture, european and oriental ceramics, glass, works of art, silver, objects of vertu, pictures, books, clocks, garden statuary and household effects. day of sale tuesday 17th september 1991 at 10.30 am.
Item Description
4to. 8.5 x 10.75 inches. 104 pp.
Illustrations
Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white.
Notes
The Hall, home of the Lambton family, was built between 1890 and 1900 and enlarged in the 1930s. It was filled with furniture from Callows of Mount Street and include numerous paintings by Paul Maze, a local artist. As the area was close to coastal inlets it was smuggler land covered by a network of lanes, with a tradition of a secret passage from West Marden to a cave in a quarry.
[Stock No. 23966]
Subjects
20th Century • Catalogues • Decorative Arts • Furniture • Painting • Smuggling • Sussex