Cistern stays at Temple Newsam after funds secured

A MASSIVE Queen Anne cistern, which set a new auction high for English silver when it sold for £2.2m in 2010, is now on display at the Tudor mansion Temple Newsam in Leeds after it was acquired for the nation.

Thomas Wentworth, 3rd Baron Raby's cistern, was ordered from the workshops of goldsmith Philip Rollo…

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