Michael Lake
Head of Department
This auction has ended. View lot details
You may also be interested in
Lot 330
A set of coronation robes worn by The Rt. Hon. Lady Dulverton at the Coronation of George VI
15 – 16 February 2022, 10:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £2,167.50 inc. premium
Looking for a similar item?
Our Home and Interiors specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.
Find your local specialistAsk about this lot
A set of coronation robes worn by The Rt. Hon. Lady Dulverton at the Coronation of George VI
comprising a short ermine capelet with gilt cordons to the shoulders and a short sleeved robe of crimson silk velvet, trimmed in white fur (miniver) with matching train of crimson silk velvet, all contained in the original W.W. Reville-Terry Ltd faux moire paper covered cardboard presentation box with Worth (London) Ltd incorporating W.W. Reville-Terry Limited label addressed to 'The Rt. Hon. Lady Dulverton, 26, Wilton Crescent, S.W.', the box, 22cm x 67cm x 47cm
Footnotes
Provenance:
Worn by the Rt. Hon. Lady Dulverton at the Coronation of King George VI on the 18th May 1937, the robes were ordered from W. W. Reville-Terry Ltd, 50 Grosvenor Street, London
The Peerage of Baron Dulverton of Batsford in Gloucester was created in 1929 for the businessman Sir Gilbert Wills, 2nd Baronet. As President of the Imperial Tobacco Company he sat as a Conservative Member of Parliament for Taunton and Weston-super-Mare.
W.W. Reville-Terry Ltd was a well known London couture salon of the interwar period. Owned by William Wallace Terry, who took the professional name of Reville it initially operated under various names including Reville & Rossiter and Reville Ltd, until the company was eventually to split into two in 1928, with Terry directing W.W. Reville-Terry Ltd. However in 1936, Terry took over the prestigious salon of the Anglo French fashion house Worth. Producing couture for the nobility and minor royalty, W.W. Reville-Terry eventually because court dressmaker to Queen Mary and advertised regularly in Vogue magazine in the 1920s. A further prestigious client of the company was Queen Maud of Norway, daughter of Edward VII. Famed for her sophisticated style she frequented all the best European couture houses and used Reville-Terry for many items of her wardrobe. A W.W. Reville-Terry gown ordered by the Queen is on display at The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo and was subsequently also was shown in an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum as part of Norway's centenary celebrations, titled 'Style and Splendour: Queen Maud of Norway's Wardrobe, 1896 – 1938' in 2005.