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The du Boulay Collection

Auction date Wednesday 8 March 2023 10:30 - 17:30 GMT

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Wednesday 8th March at 10.30am


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Head of Sale: Guy Schwinge


We are honoured to have been instructed to sell the private collection of the late Anthony and Judith du Boulay. Anthony was a leading authority on Chinese porcelain, but he had the “eye” of a true connoisseur and a passion for pieces that he found to be beautiful - from an early St. Cloud vase to an Old Master of the Madonna.

Our auction on the 8th March presents an opportunity to acquire a treasured possession from the du Boulay’s home in Dorset.

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Total lots: 261

Lot 1 Sold
AN ENGLISH DELFTWARE “DAME AU PARASOL” PLATE
mid-18th century, after a design by Cornelius Pronk, painted in underglaze blue with a lady accompanied by an Oriental figure holding a parasol within a band of floral sprigs and a cell and diaper border, 21.5cm diameter

Provenance: Bt. Sotheby’s, 19th April 2000, The Gillingham Collection, lot 157.

Exhibited: “World in Blue and White”, OCS, June 2003, no. 14.
Hammer price: £480
Estimate: £100 - £200
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 2 Sold
A BOW SAUCER DISH
circa 1755, painted in the Kakiemon style with a red and blue quail under a prunus tree, 20cm diameter
Hammer price: £160
Estimate: £50 - £100
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 3 Sold
A BOW WHITE TEA BOWL AND SAUCER
with applied prunus decoration in the Dehua style, circa 1752, 11.5cm diameter

Provenance: Bt. Aurea Carter, London SW6, 12th June 2007.
Hammer price: £360
Estimate: £100 - £200
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 4 Sold
A CHELSEA WHITE SLENDER OCTAFOIL BEAKER
c.1745-49, the wave and everted lip with four espalier tea plants in relief, 7.4cm high

Provenance: Anthony Collection, Stockspring Antiques, June 7th – 14th 2017, no. 31A.

This is an English adaptation of a blanc de chine beaker originating from rococo repoussé silver. The tea plant may partly be derived from an engraving in Nienhoff 's Embassy to China of 1665.
Hammer price: £1,300
Estimate: £500 - £1,000
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 5 Sold
A CHELSEA OCTAGONAL 'KAKIEMON' TEAPOT AND COVER
circa 1750-1752, thickly potted in the characteristic paste of the Raised Anchor period and decorated with alternating panels of stylised foliate scrolls reserved on a red ground divided by panels of “precious objects”, 12cm high

Provenance: H.K.L. Mathews Collection
F. Severne Mackenna Collection, with paper label: Chelsea no. 17 illustrated in his catalogue
Ware Collection, Sydney, Australia – dated 1745-47
Pat Daniels Collection.
Hammer price: £1,900
Estimate: £1,000 - £2,000
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 6 Sold
A CHELSEA OCTAGONAL TEA BOWL AND SAUCER
circa 1750-2, each painted in the Kakiemon style with two iron red and gilt dragons around the rim, precious objects between, a small red flower with green leaves in the centre, the saucer with raised anchor on a pad mark, the saucer 11cm diameter

Provenance: Billie Pain Collection, Bonhams, 26th November 2003 lot 25, Errol Manners for the saucer, the cup Errol Manners and Stockspring.
Hammer price: £2,200
Estimate: £500 - £1,000
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 7 Sold
A CHELSEA FLUTED CREAM JUG
circa 1750, of leaf shape, painted in the Kakiemon style, with a turquoise Shishi Qilin and with a tied bunch of iron-red flowers, with turquoise foliage and a moth, the handle a later metal replacement, 11.5cm wide overall

Provenance: Bt. Christie’s, 11th March 1996, part lot 73. Tony Stevenson Collection.

Exhibited: “The Dragon and the Quail”, 2000 no.88
Hammer price: £260
Estimate: £100 - £200
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 8 Sold
A PAIR OF CHELSEA OCTAGONAL SAUCERS
circa 1752, in the Kakiemon style, “Red Panel” pattern, 13.7cm diameter (2)

Provenance: Bt. Delomosne & Son Ltd., November 2004.
Hammer price: £420
Estimate: £100 - £200
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 9 Sold
A CHELSEA LEAF-SHAPED DISH
circa 1752, painted in the Kakiemon style, raised anchor period, 20cm wide

Provenance: Bt. From Gus Brain, 118 Venner Road, SE26, June 1993 (Simon Spero).
Hammer price: £340
Estimate: £200 - £400
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 10 Sold
A CHELSEA FLUTED BEAKER
circa 1752, painted in the Kakiemon style with flowering prunus and bamboo issuing from red and turquoise banded hedges, a flying bird at the back, small stilt marks, 6.5cm high

Provenance: Bt. Duke’s, 30th July 2015, lot 304.
Hammer price: £460
Estimate: £200 - £400
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 11 Sold
A CHELSEA PEACH-SHAPED CUP AND LEAF-SHAPED SAUCER
circa 1750-52,with a cut-stalk painted in the Kakiemon style with the “Lady in a Pavilion” pattern, the saucer 15cm across

Provenance: Bt. Brian Haughton, 7th March 2006.
Hammer price: £2,300
Estimate: £500 - £1,000
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 12 Sold
A DERBY WHITE BISCUIT GROUP OF "LES BUVEURS DE LAIT"
probably English, circa 1780, after the Sèvres original modelled by Falconet in 1759, based on a drawing by Francois Boucher, circa 1735, a boy seated on rockwork holding a shallow pan of milk which is being spilt by a smaller boy reaching up on his right hand side, 15.5cm high

Provenance: Bt. Lawrence's 2009.
Literature: The original Sèvres group is approximately 17.5cm high, an example of which is in the…
Hammer price: £280
Estimate: £100 - £200
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 13 Sold
A DERBY SEMI-CIRCULAR JARDINIÈRE
circa 1810, painted by Billingsley in sepia with two nymphs dressing a bust of Pan, the border with cornflowers, cornucopiae, with orange borders and rams-mask handles, 13.5cm high
Hammer price: £200
Estimate: £50 - £100
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 14 Sold
A WORCESTER BELL-SHAPED MUG
circa 1752-62, with loop handle, painted on either side with puce monochrome with a chinoiserie landscape, in a quatrefoil panel reserved on a canary yellow ground, enriched with chrysanthemums and other flower sprays, the upper border with iron red foliage and gilt florets, 15cm high

Provenance: Bt. Duke’s, 24th May 1991, lot 499.
Hammer price: £240
Estimate: £200 - £400
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 15 Unsold
A WORCESTER FLUTED FANCY TEACUP AND SAUCER
circa 1778-82, painted in columns, each with an exotic bird before a tree in the Duvivier style, the interior of the cup and the border of the saucer each with three-quarter trellis panels with double puce swags between, 13.2cm diameter

Provenance: Hugh Langmead, Duke's July 28th 2016 lot 232.

Literature: This type of design represents the last phase of the Dr. Wall period. The exotic birds first painted at Chelsea over 20 years previously is typically portrayed.
Estimate: £100 - £200
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 16 Sold
A WORCESTER MASK JUG
circa 1768-70, of pear-shape painted with the “Jabberwocky” pattern, the Kakiemon style winged bird headed dragon on a flowering branch from a gilt pineapple with banded hedges, within turquoise scroll border to the top, 19cm high

Literature: A tea service of this pattern was in the Factory Sale at Christie’s on December 14th 1769 (Nightingale p.100).
Hammer price: £380
Estimate: £100 - £200
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 17 Sold
AN ENGLISH SLENDER JUG
circa 1825, probably Chamberlains Worcester, transfer printed in black with the “Trusty Servant”, the reverse with a poem, 15cm high

Provenance: Bt. Girton Antiques, Olympia circa 2005.
Hammer price: £140
Estimate: £50 - £100
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 18 Sold
A STAFFORDSHIRE WHITE PORCELAIN BUST OF JOHN MILTON
late 18th century, the poet depicted head and shoulders, it is believed to be a trial Wedgwood bust after Flaxman R.A. Etruria 1790, 15.5cm high

Provenance: Bt. Sotheby’s, 19th April 2000, The Gillingham Collection, lot 103.
Hammer price: £320
Estimate: £100 - £200
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 19 Unsold
A SET OF THREE COALPORT BUCKET-SHAPED JARDINIERES
with white and gilt dolphins-head handles, the separate stands each on three gilt paw feet, the octagonal panels painted with folly buildings in landscapes, on black grounds, imitating cracked marble, the largest 30cm high (3)
Estimate: £300 - £500
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 20 Sold
A GRAINGER WORCESTER PORCELAIN RECTANGULAR PLAQUE
circa 1840, painted with a Warwick vase filled with an arrangement of flowers and with a passionflower beside resting on a marble ledge, in a giltwood frame, 42.5cm x 32.5cm

Provenance: Bt. Christie’s London, 11th February1991, lot 149.
Hammer price: £220
Estimate: £200 - £400
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 21 Unsold
A SPODE DINNER SERVICE “TRADE WINDS”
comprising:
two oblong octagonal tureens, covers and stands,
punch bowl,
two gravy boats and stands,
two oblong octagonal serving dishes,
twelve two-handled soup bowls and saucers,
fourteen meat plates,
twelve pudding plates,
twelve soup plates,
twelve small plates and one ash tray (a collection)
Estimate: £200 - £400
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 22 Sold
A SPODE BREAKFAST SERVICE
decorated in iron red with a basket of flowers within a shield, comprising:
a cylindrical sugar bowl and cover,
a cylindrical teapot and cover,
a cream jug,
six egg cups,
five small plates,
six breakfast cups and saucers (a collection)
Hammer price: £110
Estimate: £100 - £200
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 23 Sold
ALAN SPENCER-GREEN (1932-2003): A BLUE MONOCHROME VASE
of bulbous form, signed to the bottom, 10cm high
Hammer price: £130
Estimate: £50 - £100
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 24 Sold
ALAN SPENCER-GREEN (1932-2003): A BLUE GLAZE VASE
of bulbous form and a short slender neck, signed to the bottom, 9cm high
Hammer price: £130
Estimate: £50 - £100
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 25 Sold
A SÈVRES OVIFORM TEA POT AND COVER
with interlaced “L”, marks with “HH” for 1785, (Théière Calabre), each side painted with an oval panel, one with a dragoon leaning against a tree stump in landscape, the other with a soldier in a blue coat flirting with a girl beside a barrel, within gilt tooled cartouches, on a pointille celadon ground, the gilding probably by a member of the Wedinger family, 13.5cm high
Hammer price: £2,000
Estimate: £200 - £400
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 26 Unsold
A SÈVRES HARD PASTE PEAR-SHAPED MILK JUG
gilt marks and “Z” for 1778, painted by Lecot, with a branch formed handle and three feet, painted in colours with figures under a parasol, and one figure seated fishing, 12cm high

Provenance: Bt. John Whitehead June 2011.
Estimate: £500 - £1,000
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 27 Sold
A SÈVRES FOND TAILLANDIER PLATE
circa 1770, decorated with roses within oeil-de-perdrix borders, painted mark, 24.5cm diameter

Provenance: Bt. Christie’s, 30th June1980, lot 81 £423.70, Collection Mme Balsan.
Sotheby’s, 23rd July 1937, lot 13 from the Collection of Count Greffuthe sold by order of his widow and the Duc et Duchesse de Gramont.
Hammer price: £260
Estimate: £50 - £100
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 28 Sold
A SÈVRES FLUTED SUGAR BOWL
of urn form with orange and gilt ground, fleur de lys mark within interlaced “L”s gilt “QZ” and “20 Juin BT” for 1837, 10.5cm high
Hammer price: £750
Estimate: £50 - £100
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 29 Sold
A SÈVRES SMALL SEAU À DEMI BOUTEILLE FROM THE PAVLOSK SERVICE
c.1774, the U-shaped form with two scroll handles, painted with pink rose sprigs beneath a band of oval panels containing similar sprigs reserved on a oeil de perdrix ground, crowned interlaced LL mark, incised with the initials MG and AP, 16.5cm wide across the handles
Provenance: It is believed that this service was sold to the Marquis de Juigné in 1775 immediately…
Hammer price: £1,300
Estimate: £500 - £1,000
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 30 Sold
A VINCENNES WHITE POT POURRI VASE
circa 1748-50, the vase leaning against a tree trunk with applied flowers, 17.5cm high
Hammer price: £550
Estimate: £300 - £600
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 31 Sold
A VINCENNES CUP AND A SAUCER
circa 1753, of cylindrical tapering form, on a bleu lapis ground with gilt birds, the cup 8.5cm high, the saucer 15cm diameter

Provenance: Bt. John Whitehead, June 1990, The saucer bought Jean-Gabriel Peyre, Rue de Bac, September 1997.
Hammer price: £1,100
Estimate: £500 - £1,000
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 32 Sold
A VINCENNES OVAL ÉCUELLE STAND
circa 1750, with painted blue and gilt foliate handles and blateau à ornaments in the Meissen style with floral sprays, 26cm wide

Provenance: Bt. Errol Manners, January 1992.
Hammer price: £300
Estimate: £200 - £400
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 33 Sold
A VINCENNES VASE A FLEURS DU PLESSIS ORNE
circa 1752, the fluted trumpet-shaped body with elaborate foliage scroll handles, the spreading base fired separately but glazed together, painted with vertical bleu celeste bands, blue interlaced “L” marks on base and inside, 17cm high

Provenance: Bt. Woolley & Wallis, 27th November 2002, lot 486.
Hammer price: £380
Estimate: £100 - £200
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 34 Sold
A PARIS, ST. CLOUD AND NEVERS COMPOSITE SET OF PISTOL-SHAPED BLUE AND WHITE KNIFE HANDLES
circa 1730, painted with scrolling foliage and Berainesque borders, comprising four matching forks, two similar knives, a similar knife and fork with two prongs and a single fork, one probably later, the largest 27.5cm long with an 11cm handle (11)
Hammer price: £280
Estimate: £200 - £400
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 35 Sold
A RARE ST. CLOUD SOFT PASTE VASE
circa 1695-1700, of ovoid form with vertical ribs in relief, each panel painted after du Cerceaux in underglaze blue with typical Jean Bérain style strapwork, scrolls, lambrequins and foliage, 15.5cm high

Provenance: From Bernard Dragesco, 9th June 2010.
Jules Desurmont, Catalogue No. 824.
Probably Bt. Madame Recher in 1931.
Hammer price: £17,500
Estimate: £10,000 - £20,000
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 36 Sold
A ST. CLOUD TREMBLEUSE SAUCER
circa 1725-35, Henri-Charles Trou II period, with a gadrooned well, the border painted in underglaze blue “Broderies à Rinceaux”, blue underglaze marks, 12cm diameter

Provenance: Robert MacPherson Antiques, November 2010.
Hammer price: £50
Estimate: £50 - £100
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 37 Sold
A ST. CLOUD PORCELAIN BOX
circa 1740, modelled with a hunter and his dog reclining, painted in soft coloured enamels, with a silver and tortoiseshell mounted base, 8.5cm wide overall
Hammer price: £400
Estimate: £300 - £600
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 38 Sold
A ST. CLOUD RECTANGULAR PANEL FOR A SNUFF BOX
circa 1740, each side painted in the Imari palette with half-moons and trailing flowers, 8cm x 6.5cm

Provenance: Bt. Christie’s, 11th March 1996, lot 73.
Probably from: Simon Goldblatt, Sotheby’s, 1st May 1956, lot 84.
Hammer price: £340
Estimate: £80 - £150
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 39 Sold
A CHANTILLY SPICE OR SALT BOX
circa 1740, the tin-glazed white ground painted in polychrome with a landscape within “C”-scroll border and sparse Oriental flowers, chinoiserie on each side and gadrooned borders, red hunting horn mark, 16cm wide

Provenance: Bt. Duke’s, 5th February 2009, lot 270.
From the Southampton University Study Collection.
Hammer price: £800
Estimate: £150 - £250
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 40 Sold
A CHANTILLY CUP AND SAUCER
circa 1740, of bucket shape, painted in the Kakiemon style with fan-shaped panels of flowering plants and red dragons, with red hunting horn marks, 13cm diameter

Provenance: Bt. Melbury House Sale, Christie’s, 14th October 1996, lot 166.

Exhibited: “The Dragon and the Quail” no. 79.
Hammer price: £700
Estimate: £300 - £600
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 41 Sold
A CHANTILLY KAKIEMON CANE HANDLE
circa 1730-40, of knob shape, painted with boys and flowering plants, the silver mounted Malacca cane contemporary, overall length 93cm
Hammer price: £320
Estimate: £200 - £400
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 42 Sold
A CHANTILLY PLATE
circa 1730-40, painted in blue, yellow and iron red with two dragons, the centre in red and yellow with a circlet of two phoenix, the porcelain of tin-glazed soft paste, red hunting horn mark, 23cm diameter

Provenance: Bt. Dragesco-Cramoisan, 26th September 2000.
Hammer price: £550
Estimate: £300 - £600
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 43 Sold
A CHANTILLY PLATE
circa 1753, painted in iron red and gilt with two dragons and two endless knots, the centre in iron red and gilt with a circlet of two phoenix, within a wavy gilt dentilled rim, gilt hunting horn and “B” mark, also incised with a hunting horn, 24.5cm diameter

Provenance: Bt. from Vincent L ˋHerrou, Galerie Théorème, Le Louvre, des Antiquaires, 2 Place du Palais Royal, 75001, Paris. June 2002.
Hammer price: £800
Estimate: £200 - £400
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 44 Sold
A CHANTILLY CUP AND SAUCER
circa 1753, painted in iron red and gilt with two dragons and two endless knots, the centre in iron red and gilt with a circlet of two phoenix within a wavy gilt dentilled rim, gilt hunting horn and “B” mark, and incised with a hunting horn, 24.5cm diameter

Provenance: Bt. from Vincent L ˋHerrou, Galerie Théorème, Le Louvre, des Antiquaires, 2 Place du Palais Royal, 75001, Paris. June 2002.
Hammer price: £560
Estimate: £200 - £400
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 45 Sold
A MENNECY WHITE CUP, COVER AND STAND,
circa 1750, encrusted with prunus branches in relief, with foliate handle, the silver reeded rim mounted and impressed DV and with I below, 10.5cm high

Provenance: Woolley and Wallis, Lot 475 (part lot) 23rd May 2017.

Possibly because they only started making Dehua style wares circa 1750, they are comparatively rare. A tobacco jar with similar decoration is illustrated in "Tendre Porcelain de Mennecy" by Nicole Duchon, fig. 37, p.40.
Hammer price: £320
Estimate: £150 - £250
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 46 Sold
A PARIS (PROBABLY ANTOINE PAVIE) CUP AND SAUCER
circa 1725-30, painted with blue and white cell diaper border above flutes, 13.5cm diameter, the cup 7.5cm high

Provenance: Bt. Klaber and Klaber, 12th June 2001.
Hammer price: £330
Estimate: £50 - £100
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 47 Sold
A PAIR OF VILLEROY MENNECY HANDLES
the porcelain circa 1740, painted in iron red, blue, yellow and turquoise with chinoiserie scenes, fitted with later French pierced silver serving knife and fork blades, the handles circa 8.5cm long

Provenance: Bt. Christie’s Geneva, 7th May1979 lot 201.
Hammer price: £240
Estimate: £100 - £200
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 48 Sold
A MEISSEN OGEE-SHAPED BREAKFAST CUP AND SAUCER
circa 1735, painted in the manner of Adam Freidrich von Lowenfinck, with chinoiserie children at play in landscapes, after engravings by Petrus Schenk Jun, and with Indianische Blumen, with blue crossed swords marks, gilt inscription “31 Old Bond Street repaired circa 1790”, 14.2cm diameter

Provenance: Bt. Melbury House, Christie’s, 14th October 1996, £250.
Hammer price: £500
Estimate: £80 - £160
8 March 2023
8 March 2023

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