THE HISTORIC1867 MELBOURNE CUP AND THE 1867 QUEEN'S PLATE TROPHY WON BY TIM WHIFFLER, THE MELBOURNE CUP BY THOMAS SMILY, LONDON 1866, THE QUEEN'S PLATE BY WILLIAM EDWARDS, MELBOURNE, 1866
THE HISTORIC1867 MELBOURNE CUP AND THE 1867 QUEEN'S PLATE TROPHY WON BY TIM WHIFFLER, THE MELBOURNE CUP BY THOMAS SMILY, LONDON 1866, THE QUEEN'S PLATE BY WILLIAM EDWARDS, MELBOURNE, 1866Estimate $600,000 – $800,000
- Lot Sold $600,000 (Hammer Price)
- $720,000 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
the Melbourne cup of baluster form with silver gilt highlights, ornately chased with classical masks and intertwined grape and vine around a scroll cartouche decorated with a Bacchanalian scene of a young god in a chariot drawn by lions, the reverse inscribed '1867 Melbourne Cup won by Tim Whiffler', flanked by acanthus scroll handles, the cover cast with a figure of Victory, together with a stepped wooden stand; the Queen's Plate cup with a domed beaded foot chased and embossed with horses and jockeys riding against a back drop of a wooded landscape, rising to a knopped stem with lion masks and caryatids, the bowl with lobed cartouches emanating four horses heads supporting silver bridle chains, the cover with six gilt plaques showing horses and racing scenes, surmounted by a horse finial, the foot inscribed 'Queen's Plate won by Tim Whiffler, Melbourne, 1867, the stepped ebonised stand with an applied silver plate with the same engraved dedication
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THE MELBOURNE CUP 3557GMS, 56CM HIGH; THE QUEENS PLATE 3522GMS, 61CM HIGH
PROVENANCE
The Royds family, New South Wales