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Silver Powder Flask
Details
- Date
- 1837
- Author / Artist
- Charles Rawlings & William Summers, London
- Dimensions
- 8oz and 20cm
- Material
- Silver
- Catalogue number
- HBT.54
- Current location
- Archives
Silver powder flask engraved on one side with two men in top hats with shotguns and on the other with commemorative description inscription to the Marquess: “This powder flask and shot belt were presented to the Marquess of Chandos in kind remembrance of a pleasant shooting excursion to the moors of Auchlyne in Perthshire in August 1837 by his obliged friends J.W.Chase of Cosgrove, T.B.Rose of Haddenham, J.Hoare of Wendover, and J.Bailey of Shenley” .
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Two Silver-Gilt Plates
Details
- Date
- 1775
- Author / Artist
- Andrew Folgelburg, London
- Dimensions
- 29.5cm by 24cm
- Material
- Silver gilt
- Catalogue number
- HBT.55.1-2
- Current location
- Museum
Pair of silver-gilt plates, 1775, with Chandos arms and motto “Maintien le Droit” on rim and with the Grenville wheatsheaf added later .
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Horse’s Hoof Ink Stand
Details
- Date
- 1861
- Author / Artist
- Robert Garrard, London
- Dimensions
- 9cm
- Material
- Silver, hoof, glass
- Catalogue number
- HBT.56
- Current location
- Archives
Horse’s hoof ink stand on silver base. Engraved with name of horse – Warwick – “27 years the favourite charger of the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, Colonel of the Royal Bucks Yeomanry Cavalry” .
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Silver Baby’s Rattle
Details
- Date
- late 18th century
- Author / Artist
- Possibly William Eley
- Dimensions
- 15.5cm
- Material
- Gilt metal/ silver
- Catalogue number
- HBT.57
- Current location
- Archives
Silver baby’s rattle probably late 18th century with whistle built into the handle.
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Sucrier and Milk Jug
Details
- Date
- 1783-1840
- Author / Artist
- Barr Flight and Barr Worcester
- Dimensions
- Sucrier 15cm wide by 14cm high
- Material
- Porcelain
- Catalogue number
- HBT.100.1-2
- Current location
- Museum
Barr Flight and Barr Worcester hybrid hard paste porcelain covered sucrier and milk jug, enamelled crest of the Temple family featuring a Martlet on a coronet and motto ‘Templa Quam Dilecta’, beautifully painted with laurel and berries, marked in puce number 382.
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Expanding the Stowe Collection
A rare Temple-Grenville cup and saucer join Stowe’s historic tea set. We mark a step toward Museum Accreditation and deepening the story of the estate’s rich heritage.
12 January 2025
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Self-portrait of Elizabeth Grenville, neé Wyndham
Details
- Date
- mid 18th century
- Author / Artist
- Dimensions
- 60cm by 40cm
- Material
- Pastel
- Catalogue number
- HBT.101
- Current location
- Blue Room
Elizabeth Grenville, neé Wyndham, 1716-1769, married George Grenville in 1749. He later served as Prime Minister from 1763 to 1765. The couple had seven children, including George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, first Marquess of Buckingham, who inherited the estate of Stowe in Buckinghamshire (where this portrait once hung), and Prime Minister William Wyndham Grenville (1759-1834). At Stowe there was a dressing room hung with yellow damask which displayed several of Elizabeths pastels including this self portrait.
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Side Table designed by Sir John Soane
Details
- Date
- 1805
- Author / Artist
- Sir John Soane
- Dimensions
- 143cm wide by 46cm deep by 92cm high
- Material
- Wood, Ivory
- Catalogue number
- HBT.102
- Current location
- Gothic Library
- Related
- Related history
Matching side table designed by Sir John Soane, painted wood, faux marble top, ivory tracery, twin columns resting on incurved platform. The pair to this table may be found at the Victoria & Albert Museum. This table formed part of the furniture that Soane degined for the Gothic Library at Stowe created at the request of the Marquess of Buckingham to house his Gothic and Irish manuscript collection. Soane designed the room 1805 taking inspiration from Henry VII’s Chapel at Westminster, to show the Marquess’s connection to royalty.
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Original Furniture Returns to Stowe House After 155 years – The Sir John Soane Side Table
Read all about the exciting addition to the collection on display at Stowe House.
2 July 2024
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Stowe Chapel Bible
Details
- Date
- 1851
- Author / Artist
- Dimensions
- Material
- Leather and paper
- Catalogue number
- ArcSS.303
- Current location
- Archives
A presentation Authorised Bible, fine tooled leather binding
incorporating B&C device under the ducal coronet, large folio.
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1834 Sales Catalogue
Details
- Date
- 1834
- Author / Artist
- Printed by J. Davy, Seven Dials
- Dimensions
- 24cm by 16cm
- Material
- Printed paper, marbled board
- Catalogue number
- ArcSS.304
- Current location
- Archives
Catalogue of the 2nd Duke of Buckingham’s sale of ancient and modern prints, sold by Mr Phillips, in Bond Street, four thousand lots sold over thirty days.
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Photo Album, Stowe House
Details
- Date
- late 19th century
- Author / Artist
- Dimensions
- 60cm
- Material
- Leather half morocco and cloth bound
- Catalogue number
- ArcSS.305
- Current location
- Archives
An album of large plate, photographs, late 19th century, elephant folio in green half
morocco.
