Decorative Arts, Furniture and Jewellery
Live Virtual Auction, 19 - 21 September 2022
Silver, Furniture and Ceramics
About the Sessionincluding The Property of a Connoisseur Part III and The Property of the Estate Late Tiemen Groen
Lot Estimate
ZAR 7 000 - 9 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 18 760
About this Item
A Victorian 'Marrow Bone Club' silver toast rack, William Cunningham, Edinburgh, 1842
with eight divisions centred by a scroll and foliate handle, the open framework raised on acanthus-leaf and shell feet, the side plates engraved with an armorial and the crest for the Marrow Bone Club NIL NISI BONUM, 23,2cm wide, 605g
Notes
The Marrow Bone Club met at Fleshmarket Close, Edinburgh from the 1830s with each member (typically Lords of Session, the most senior body of Scottish judges) owning their own heavy gauge 3.2oz scoop to enjoy their marrow which was eaten with toast. 1 The motto of the club Nil nisi bonum is a Latin abbreviation that translates "of the dead, nothing but good".
1. https://www.antiquestradegazette.com/print-edition/2019/august/2406/feature/silver-power-of-scotland-spotlight-on-british-silver-produced-north-of-the-border/
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