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A gem-set commemorative pendant for the Delhi Durbar, attributed to Boucheron, 1911, the...
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A gem-set commemorative pendant for the Delhi Durbar, attributed to Boucheron, 1911, the pierced spherical pendant with red enamel lettering reading ‘Camp Madras’ and ‘Delhi Durbar’, with a central row of rose-cut diamond Roman numerals ‘MCMXI’, spaced by amethyst cabochons in geometric openwork settings, suspending a similarly-set drop below, to a rose-cut diamond bale, mounted in silver and gold, length 40mm. £1,600-£2,000
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Provenance: This pendant was presented to Lucy Mabel Hammick, a daughter of Sir Murray Love Hammick, and thence by descent.
Sir Murray Love Hammick (11 May 1854 – 4 March 1936), worked in the Indian civil service in Madras. In 1908 he was appointed to the Executive Council of the Governor of Madras and in March 1912 he was chosen to act as the Governor of Madras until the arrival of the governor-designate John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland in October of that year. Hammick was knighted in 1911, becoming a Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India (KCSI). He also held the title of Companion of the Order of the Star of India (CSI).
The third Delhi Durbar was held in 1911 to celebrate the Coronation of King George V and Queen Mary and allow their proclamation as Emperor and Empress of India. Every governor and all the rulers of princely states in India attended to pay obeisance. The huge pageant was attended by 10,000 government officials and other dignitaries and a further 50,000 local people. The royal couple arrived in their Coronation robes with the King-Emperor wearing the Imperial Crown of India. Two days later the King-Emperor presided over a military review of 40,000 troops. A feature film of the event titled With Our King and Queen Through India (1912) – also known as The Durbar in Delhi – was filmed in the early colour process Kinemacolor and released in February 1912.
It appears that Lord Carmichael (Thomas David Gibson-Carmichael, 1st Baron Carmichael), the Governor of Madras from November 1911 to March 1912, commissioned a series of these bejewelled commemorative pendants to be given as gifts to selected female guests at the Durbar. Three others are recorded - one presented to Frances Campbell, the wife of Archibald Campbell, private secretary to Lord Carmichael (sold at Tennants in November 2020); a second was presented to Mrs Elwes, the wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Fenn Elwes, principal of the Medical College in Madras (sold at Bonhams in October 2003); the third was presented to Miss Edith Hamilton, Lord Carmichael’s wife’s cousin, who attended the Durbar (sold at Bonhams in 2009).
The Hamilton and Elwes pendants were both contained in signed fitted cases by Boucheron, and given they are identical, it is probable that all the pendants were commissioned from Boucheron.
Condition Report
Photograph of group captioned: ‘In front of Government House, Madras, 1911’
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Provenance: This pendant was presented to Lucy Mabel Hammick, a daughter of Sir Murray Love Hammick, and thence by descent.
Sir Murray Love Hammick (11 May 1854 – 4 March 1936), worked in the Indian civil service in Madras. In 1908 he was appointed to the Executive Council of the Governor of Madras and in March 1912 he was chosen to act as the Governor of Madras until the arrival of the governor-designate John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland in October of that year. Hammick was knighted in 1911, becoming a Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India (KCSI). He also held the title of Companion of the Order of the Star of India (CSI).
The third Delhi Durbar was held in 1911 to celebrate the Coronation of King George V and Queen Mary and allow their proclamation as Emperor and Empress of India. Every governor and all the rulers of princely states in India attended to pay obeisance. The huge pageant was attended by 10,000 government officials and other dignitaries and a further 50,000 local people. The royal couple arrived in their Coronation robes with the King-Emperor wearing the Imperial Crown of India. Two days later the King-Emperor presided over a military review of 40,000 troops. A feature film of the event titled With Our King and Queen Through India (1912) – also known as The Durbar in Delhi – was filmed in the early colour process Kinemacolor and released in February 1912.
It appears that Lord Carmichael (Thomas David Gibson-Carmichael, 1st Baron Carmichael), the Governor of Madras from November 1911 to March 1912, commissioned a series of these bejewelled commemorative pendants to be given as gifts to selected female guests at the Durbar. Three others are recorded - one presented to Frances Campbell, the wife of Archibald Campbell, private secretary to Lord Carmichael (sold at Tennants in November 2020); a second was presented to Mrs Elwes, the wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Fenn Elwes, principal of the Medical College in Madras (sold at Bonhams in October 2003); the third was presented to Miss Edith Hamilton, Lord Carmichael’s wife’s cousin, who attended the Durbar (sold at Bonhams in 2009).
The Hamilton and Elwes pendants were both contained in signed fitted cases by Boucheron, and given they are identical, it is probable that all the pendants were commissioned from Boucheron.
Condition Report
Photograph of group captioned: ‘In front of Government House, Madras, 1911’
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A gem-set commemorative pendant for the Delhi Durbar, attributed to Boucheron, 1911, the pierced spherical pendant with red enamel lettering reading ‘Camp Madras’ and ‘Delhi Durbar’, with a central row of rose-cut diamond Roman numerals ‘MCMXI’, spaced by amethyst cabochons in geometric openwork settings, suspending a similarly-set drop below, to a rose-cut diamond bale, mounted in silver and gold, length 40mm. £1,600-£2,000
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Provenance: This pendant was presented to Lucy Mabel Hammick, a daughter of Sir Murray Love Hammick, and thence by descent.
Sir Murray Love Hammick (11 May 1854 – 4 March 1936), worked in the Indian civil service in Madras. In 1908 he was appointed to the Executive Council of the Governor of Madras and in March 1912 he was chosen to act as the Governor of Madras until the arrival of the governor-designate John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland in October of that year. Hammick was knighted in 1911, becoming a Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India (KCSI). He also held the title of Companion of the Order of the Star of India (CSI).
The third Delhi Durbar was held in 1911 to celebrate the Coronation of King George V and Queen Mary and allow their proclamation as Emperor and Empress of India. Every governor and all the rulers of princely states in India attended to pay obeisance. The huge pageant was attended by 10,000 government officials and other dignitaries and a further 50,000 local people. The royal couple arrived in their Coronation robes with the King-Emperor wearing the Imperial Crown of India. Two days later the King-Emperor presided over a military review of 40,000 troops. A feature film of the event titled With Our King and Queen Through India (1912) – also known as The Durbar in Delhi – was filmed in the early colour process Kinemacolor and released in February 1912.
It appears that Lord Carmichael (Thomas David Gibson-Carmichael, 1st Baron Carmichael), the Governor of Madras from November 1911 to March 1912, commissioned a series of these bejewelled commemorative pendants to be given as gifts to selected female guests at the Durbar. Three others are recorded - one presented to Frances Campbell, the wife of Archibald Campbell, private secretary to Lord Carmichael (sold at Tennants in November 2020); a second was presented to Mrs Elwes, the wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Fenn Elwes, principal of the Medical College in Madras (sold at Bonhams in October 2003); the third was presented to Miss Edith Hamilton, Lord Carmichael’s wife’s cousin, who attended the Durbar (sold at Bonhams in 2009).
The Hamilton and Elwes pendants were both contained in signed fitted cases by Boucheron, and given they are identical, it is probable that all the pendants were commissioned from Boucheron.
Condition Report
Photograph of group captioned: ‘In front of Government House, Madras, 1911’
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Provenance: This pendant was presented to Lucy Mabel Hammick, a daughter of Sir Murray Love Hammick, and thence by descent.
Sir Murray Love Hammick (11 May 1854 – 4 March 1936), worked in the Indian civil service in Madras. In 1908 he was appointed to the Executive Council of the Governor of Madras and in March 1912 he was chosen to act as the Governor of Madras until the arrival of the governor-designate John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland in October of that year. Hammick was knighted in 1911, becoming a Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India (KCSI). He also held the title of Companion of the Order of the Star of India (CSI).
The third Delhi Durbar was held in 1911 to celebrate the Coronation of King George V and Queen Mary and allow their proclamation as Emperor and Empress of India. Every governor and all the rulers of princely states in India attended to pay obeisance. The huge pageant was attended by 10,000 government officials and other dignitaries and a further 50,000 local people. The royal couple arrived in their Coronation robes with the King-Emperor wearing the Imperial Crown of India. Two days later the King-Emperor presided over a military review of 40,000 troops. A feature film of the event titled With Our King and Queen Through India (1912) – also known as The Durbar in Delhi – was filmed in the early colour process Kinemacolor and released in February 1912.
It appears that Lord Carmichael (Thomas David Gibson-Carmichael, 1st Baron Carmichael), the Governor of Madras from November 1911 to March 1912, commissioned a series of these bejewelled commemorative pendants to be given as gifts to selected female guests at the Durbar. Three others are recorded - one presented to Frances Campbell, the wife of Archibald Campbell, private secretary to Lord Carmichael (sold at Tennants in November 2020); a second was presented to Mrs Elwes, the wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Fenn Elwes, principal of the Medical College in Madras (sold at Bonhams in October 2003); the third was presented to Miss Edith Hamilton, Lord Carmichael’s wife’s cousin, who attended the Durbar (sold at Bonhams in 2009).
The Hamilton and Elwes pendants were both contained in signed fitted cases by Boucheron, and given they are identical, it is probable that all the pendants were commissioned from Boucheron.
Condition Report
Photograph of group captioned: ‘In front of Government House, Madras, 1911’
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