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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 145 Sold
A SILVER CARRIAGE CLOCK
by Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Company, London, 1930, inscribed to the back, in a domed case with a gilt metal chapter ring, 13cm high x 10cm wide, in a red Morocco outer carrying case
Hammer price: £1,600
Estimate: £500 - £1,000
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 146 Sold
A SILVER ROYAL PRESENTATION CIGARETTE BOX
by James Samuel Bell and Louis Willmott, London, 1897, of rectangular form with an inscription to the interior of the lid "In recollection of The Sheila from Beatrice Victoria and Louise Osborne 1898", 9cm long (c.129g)
Hammer price: £200
Estimate: £200 - £400
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 147 Sold
A CHINESE SANCAI OVOID VASE
Tang or later, of bulbous form, with a brown slightly flared rim, decorated with an amber and green mottled glaze to the upper section, 19cm high
Hammer price: £300
Estimate: £100 - £200
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 148 Sold
A "LONGQUAN" CELADON VASE
Song or later, the octagonal faceted body of baluster form, decorated in a crackle glaze and twin lug handles, 14.5cm high
Hammer price: £1,100
Estimate: £100 - £200
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 149 Sold
A DEHUA OCTAGONAL BEAKER,
circa 1710, Dutch decorated, painted with exotic birds and flowering plants, and a brocaded panel in the Kakiemon style, with impressed seal mark, 7cm high

Provenance: E & H Manners 1992.
Bt. Watney Collection, Bonham’s, 7th November 2003, part lot 19.
Hammer price: £550
Estimate: £100 - £200
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 150 Sold
A DEHUA OCTAGONAL BEAKER
circa 1745-50, London decorated, the beaker of tapering form moulded with stiff leaves around the base, enamelled in the Kakiemon style with green and polychrome foliage, 6.5cm high

Provenance: Bt. Bonham’s, Watney Collection, 7th November 2003, part lot 19.
Hammer price: £360
Estimate: £100 - £200
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 151 Sold
A DEHUA OCTAGONAL BEAKER
impressed sealmark, 1715-22, London decorated with moulded figures in panels, painted in red, gold and touches of dark brown on a seeded moulded petal-shaped base, 6.5cm high

Provenance: Helen Espir, Christie’s 12th June 1995, lot 202. W. Winkworth.

Literature: Espir, op.cit. p.213, fig.10.
Hammer price: £1,000
Estimate: £200 - £400
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 152 Sold
A DEHUA OCTAGONAL BEAKER
1715-1722, London decorated, sketchily painted in red within red hatched borders and with green and red foliage and petals above and below, 7cm high

Provenance: Helen Espir, Christie’s, 12th June 1995, Lot 202.
W. Winkworth Collection.

Literature: Espir, op.cit. p.213, fig.10.
Hammer price: £800
Estimate: £200 - £400
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 153 Sold
A DEHUA OCTAGONAL BEAKER
1715-1722, London decorated, sketchily painted in red within red hatched borders and with green and red foliage and petals above and below, 7cm high

Provenance: Helen Espir, Christie’s 12th June 1995, Lot 202.
W. Winkworth Collection.

Literature: Espir, op.cit. p.213, fig.10.
Hammer price: £420
Estimate: £150 - £250
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 154 Sold
A DEHUA OCTAGONAL BEAKER
moulded seal mark, early 18th century, painted in Holland in the Kakiemon style with alternate panels painted with formal flowering plants between pale salmon pink panels with gilt trellis work enclosing circular cartouches with figures in boats, 7cm high
Hammer price: £460
Estimate: £100 - £200
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 155 Sold
A DEHUA BLANC DE CHINE BEAKER
the porcelain Kangxi, Paris decoration added 1700-1720, decorated with applied gold foil chinoiseries, 6cm high

Provenance: Simon Glodblatt, Sotheby’s & Co, 1st May 1956, lot 44, as Venice, (W. Brandt).
Bt. E & H Manners, 16th December 2003.
Hammer price: £4,200
Estimate: £300 - £600
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 156 Sold
A LIMEHOUSE DECORATED DEHUA TEA BOWL
probably late 17th century with an incised seal, the decoration circa 1746-9, of cinquefoil form, covered in a turquoise glaze, the moulded relief of two flower sprays, a seated figure and a thatched cottage, covered in an aubergine glaze, 8cm wide

Provenance: The Earl of Ilchester, Melbury House.
Bt. Duke’s, 31st July 2014, lot 465.
Hammer price: £340
Estimate: £50 - £100
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 157 Sold
A DEHUA LOBED SAUCER DISH
the porcelain circa 1700, the decoration circa 1725, painted in Holland in the “Fine lines style” with birds in a river landscape with buildings, the border with floral medallions and a brown rim, 12cm diameter

Provenance: Sotheby’s, 12th June 1984, lot 435.
Hammer price: £240
Estimate: £50 - £100
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 158 Sold
A DEHUA BLANC DE CHINE TEAPOT AND COVER
Kangxi, late 17th century, of octagonal form, each side moulded in relief with a flowering prunus spray, later silver cylindrical tapering spout, the cover with flower spray finial and with formal branch handle, 15cm high

Provenance: Bt. Woolley & Wallis, 18th November 2015 lot 607.

These teapots were produced in a large variety of different shapes. This octagonal example appears to be recorded by Ayers in the Royal Collection no. 88.
Hammer price: £440
Estimate: £100 - £200
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 159 Sold
A DEHUA MUG
Kangxi, with a cylindrical ribbed neck, strap handle and bulbous lower body moulded with a shoulder lappet band, 9cm high

Provenance: Bt. Duke’s, 14th November 2014, lot 163, from a Cumbrian private collection.

Literature: The form of this mug is inspired by European silver or pewter examples. See Donnelly, P.J., Blanc de Chine, London 1969, pl.125A.
Hammer price: £120
Estimate: £50 - £100
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 160 Sold
A DEHUA BLANC DE CHINE TEAPOT AND COVER
with silver-gilt chain, mid-17th century, of pomegranate form, supported by the star-shaped calyx foot, moulded around the sides with leafy twigs with the branch of one forming the loop handle to one side, the other side with straight conical spout, the cover in the form of a leafy branch, with nearly contemporary silver-gilt chain from handle to finial, 13.6cm wide
Provenance: Dr. Bernard WatneyBt. Bonhams 13th May 2010, part lot 304.Literature: For the Meissen…
Hammer price: £4,200
Estimate: £100 - £200
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 161 Sold
A DEHUA PEAR-SHAPED BLANC-DE-CHINE EWER
Dutch decorated and painted in the Kakiemon style with “banded hedges”, one side with the “three friends”, the other side with three large red poppies, the decoration mid-1720’s, with famille verte cover, 18cm high

Provenance: Bt. R & G McPherson Antiques, June 2015.
By the same hand as no. 14 in Helen Espir’s book.
Hammer price: £850
Estimate: £150 - £250
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 162 Sold
A ‘RED’ YIXING LOTUS-FORM TEAPOT
the yixing body early-mid 18th century, the London executed enamels early 19th century, the rounded body moulded to suggest a lotus bud, with London-executed famille rose style enamels of butterflies and flowers, the spout and wooden cover with silver mounts, 15.2cm
Hammer price: £200
Estimate: £100 - £200
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 163 Sold
A DARK YIXING TEAPOT
probably Kangxi, moulded in naturalistic form, with flowering prunus highlighted in gilt, 14cm high
Hammer price: £240
Estimate: £80 - £150
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 164 Sold
A ‘RED’ YIXING HEXAGONAL TEAPOT
Kangxi period, each side moulded with flowers on a diaper-patterned ground, wooden scroll handle and silver spout, 17.8cm long

Provenance: The Arthur J. Harris Collection.
Illustrated Patrice Valfré, Yixing Teapots for Europe, no. 205.
Bt. Woolley & Wallis, 15th November 2011, lot 150.
A similar press-moulded hexagonal teapot is illustrated by William Sargent in "Treasures of Export…
Hammer price: £1,400
Estimate: £200 - £400
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 165 Sold
A CHINESE TEA BOWL AND SAUCER
Jingdezhen, the Dutch decoration circa 1720-25, perhaps by Gerrit van der Kaade, after Adriaen Colliert, and painted in the Kakiemon style, with two parrots in turquoise, red and yellow enamels, highlighted in gilt, the birds perched on a budding rose tree within a scalloped brown rim

Provenance: Bt. Phillips, 11th December 1991 lot 168.

Literature: Helen Espir op.cif.fig.44 for the print, 45 for a dish.
Hammer price: £550
Estimate: £100 - £200
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 166 Sold
A CHINESE CUP AND SAUCER
circa 1720-30, Dutch decorated with originally underglaze blue bamboo and clouds enriched in red and gold with pagodas, rocks and palm trees in green, yellow and black, with birds perched on flowering plants, the interior with peacocks and flowering branches, 11.3cm diameter

Provenance: Bt. Geoffrey Waters Ltd, June 2000.

Literature: Espir, Helen, European Decoration on Chinese Porcelain, p.126, fig.650
See also Espir Sale Catalogue, Woolley & Wallis, lot 354.
Exhibited: British Museum 2001, no. 43 OCS “East meets West: Oriental Porcelain Decorated in Europe”
Hammer price: £170
Estimate: £100 - £200
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 167 Sold
A CHINESE TEA POT
circa 1735, of bullet-shape, London decorated painted in blue and iron red with buildings and foliage, and with gilt standing figures, within formal borders, the domed lid with conforming decoration, 11.5cm high

Provenance: Bt. Duke’s, 27th May 2004, lot 464.

Literature: Espir, op.cit. p.217, fig.16.
Hammer price: £300
Estimate: £100 - £200
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 168 Sold
A CHINESE CYLINDRICAL VASE
the porcelain Jingdezhen circa 1720, enamelling added in Holland, circa 1725-30, of rouleau form, with short trumpet neck, decorated all over with carved lotus scroll pattern under the glaze and with brown glazed rim, the decoration in the Kakiemon style, a maned dragon alternating with a phoenix above a flowering branch on each side, scrolling chrysanthemum foliage in turquoise and three gilt flowers, on a red ground around the shoulder, the neck with two flowering branches, 27.5cm high
Provenance: Stockspring 29/4/1988 no. 20.Literature: Illustrated by Helen Espir “European…
Hammer price: £800
Estimate: £400 - £600
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 169 Sold
A SMALL BELL-SHAPED MUG (CAPUCHINE)
circa 1720-30, the decoration probably Italian, the exterior covered in a Batavian brown glaze enriched in cold colours with a crouching gilt chinoiserie figure with two attendants, smaller figures with parasols either side of the “C”-shaped handle, the border to the interior with underglaze blue flower sprays, 9cm high

Provenance: Bt. Paulo Lukacs Donath, Rome, 26th November 2004.
Hammer price: £800
Estimate: £150 - £250
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 170 Sold
A CHINESE PORCELAIN BOWL AND COVER
probably 1722-1727, with gold Paris mounts, the bowl probably Fujian, the cover Dehua mounted with gold rims and applied gold panels, the bowl with a blue seal mark, one of the gold rims with two Paris dècharge marks, the other with a single dècharge mark, 9cm diameter

Provenance: Bt. Kenneth Davis, 15 King Street, St. James’s, 20th September 2004.
Hammer price: £4,000
Estimate: £500 - £1,000
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 171 Sold
A CHINESE SAUCER PAINTED “EN CAMAÏEU VERTE”
circa 1758-63, with rustic scene in front of a farmhouse, within gilt dentil borders, London painted, probably in the workshop of James Giles, 12cm diameter; together with a Chelsea bucket-shaped tea bowl similarly painted with a river landscape, with gold anchor mark, circa 1760, attributed to J.H. O’Neale, 7cm diameter (2)

Provenance: The Saucer: Watney Collection, Phillips Part II, 10th May 2000.
The cup: the late Charles E. Boast. Bt. E & H Manners, 3rd December 2010.
Literature: “The Early James Giles and his Contemporary London Decorators”, by Stephen Hanscombe,…
Hammer price: £1,000
Estimate: £100 - £200
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 172 Sold
A CHINESE BALUSTER VASE
Qing or later, decorated in a pale celadon crackle glaze, 21cm high
Hammer price: £300
Estimate: £80 - £150
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 173 Sold
A CHINESE QUATREFOIL CUP AND SAUCER
Qianlong, painted after a Meissen copy of Kakiemon scattered with flower sprays, with blue enamelled crossed swords marks, 11.5cm wide

Provenance: Bt. R & G McPherson Antiques, 12th June 2013.

Literature: Espir, op.cit., p.167, fig.17.
Hammer price: £260
Estimate: £50 - £100
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 174 Sold
A CHINESE TEA BOWL AND SAUCER
the porcelain late Kangxi, with blue square seal marks, the engraving probably Dresden, circa 1720-25, painted in underglaze blue with birds perched on flowering branches issuing from rockwork, the Batavian brown exterior wheel engraved, each with a flying Cupid holding an arrow and a heart and birds perched on flowering branches and a basket, 11.5cm diameter

Provenance: Bt. Robert McPherson Antiques, June 2014.

Literature: Espir, op.cit., fig.12.
Hammer price: £600
Estimate: £100 - £200
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 175 Sold
A CHINESE PORCELAIN TEAPOT AND COVER
the porcelain circa 1715-20, the Dutch decoration circa 1725, in fine-line style on one side with a dog and a man shooting at three ducks across a canal, on the other with a pheasant looking back at a hanging spider flanked by two large flowering branches, the cover with red and yellow knop and two flower sprays, the handle with flowers, the spout with two mosquitos, 12cm high

Provenance: Bt. from Rob Michiels Antiquetiles Be Eekhoutstraat 1 , 8000 Brugge, Belgium. 25th November 2014.
Literature:  Espir, op.cit. p.119, fig.6.
Hammer price: £7,000
Estimate: £500 - £1,000
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 176 Sold
A CHINESE TEABOWL
Kangxi, with later Dutch 'clobbered' decoration, of hexagonal form with pierced lattice panels, on an associated white metal and jadeite stand, the bowl 6cm high x 7.5cm wide
Hammer price: £400
Estimate: £100 - £200
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 177 Sold
A CHINESE APOTHECARY BOTTLE
the porcelain Kangxi, circa 1700, the decoration circa 1710-30, Dutch decorated after a Japanese original of broad baluster form, the neck with brown rimmed collar and flat silver top, the body enamelled in green, red, gold and black with a pheasant on a flowering tree on each side, the shoulder with floral and scroll lappets, the neck with flower sprays and red stiff leaves, 23.5cm high

Provenance: Helen Espir Collection no. 342. Bt. Woolley & Wallis 13th November 2014, lot 370.
Literature: “European Decoration on Oriental Porcelain” by Helen Espir, p. 77, pl. 6, where she…
Hammer price: £800
Estimate: £200 - £400
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 178 Sold
A CHRYSANTHEMUM PETAL SAUCER DISH
Kangxi, painted in the Japanese Arita style, the centre with a yellow robed man standing behind a red robed woman, the border with three flower sprays, 13.8cm diameter

Literature: For an identical design to the Meissen version of this subject – see "Porcelain for Palace" Exhibition, British Museum 1991, no. 308.

Exhibited: World in Colours OCS 2006, no. 400.
Hammer price: £160
Estimate: £100 - £200
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 179 Sold
A FAMILLE VERTE FAN-SHAPED SWEETMEAT DISH
Kangxi, with flowers and precious objects on a green wave ground, 14.5cm wide

Provenance: Godmersham Park, Kent, Christie's, 7th June 1983.
Hammer price: £120
Estimate: £50 - £100
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 180 Unsold
FOUR CHINESE FAMILE ROSE YELLOW GROUND PLATES
Guangxu, painted and gilt, with four roundels containing characters amongst scrolling foliage, the centre with shou character, with iron-red Guangxu six character marks to the base and of the period, 24cm diameter

Provenance: The du Boulay family.
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,500
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 181 Sold
A CHINESE EXPORT PART SERVICE
Qianlong, decorated with an armorial depicting a heraldic lion, with green and gilt borders, consisting of a bottle vase, sugar bowl, sauce boats and plates of various sizes (a collection)

Provenance: The du Boulay family.
Hammer price: £400
Estimate: £200 - £400
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 182 Sold
A CHINESE HARDWOOD BRUSH POT (BITONG)
with a moulded rim and a similar base with three shaped feet, 13.5cm diameter
Hammer price: £650
Estimate: £500 - £1,000
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 183 Sold
CHINESE SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY
a set of five scrolls depicting equestrian figures, archers and figures hunting, 102.5cm (the largest)
Hammer price: £280
Estimate: £200 - £400
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 184 Unsold
A CHINESE REVERSE PAINTING ON GLASS
18th century, depicting an elegant couple seated beneath a tree with an extensive river landscape beyond, in a later giltwood and black lacquer frame decorated with foliage in gilt within a beaded and leaf-carved border, 29.5cm x 45.5cm (the glass)

Provenance: Bt. Duke’s, 26th October 1995, Lot 500.
Estimate: £500 - £1,000
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 185 Sold
A JAPANESE ARITA CHARGER
Edo, decorated with figures in a landscape, one flying a flag, with pagodas in the distance, 39cm diameter
Hammer price: £1,000
Estimate: £150 - £250
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 186 Sold
AN ARITA SMALL OBLONG BOWL
of European baroque form, with painted “three friends on banded hedges”, the baluster section with orange ground panels, highlighted in gilt, the decoration circa 1720-40, 8cm high

Provenance: Bt. Lawrence’s, 16th January 2014, lot 1415.
Hammer price: £400
Estimate: £50 - £100
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 187 Sold
A JAPANESE TEA BOWL AND SAUCER
the porcelain circa 1720-30, the Dutch decoration 1740-50, painted in bright colours with Harlequin, Columbine and gentlemen in a garden landscape within lappet borders, 11cm diameter

Provenance: Bt. Errol Manners, June 2013.
Hammer price: £480
Estimate: £100 - £200
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 188 Sold
A PAIR OF KAKIEMON ORMOLU-MOUNTED BOWLS
Edo, late 17th century, of deep rounded form, decorated with flowering plants issuing from blue and yellow low tables; the top ormolu bands each with three vertical rectangular handles, the ormolu stands with three finely-chased goat’s leg monopodia supports surrounding a central gadrooned section, in the manner of Dominique Daguerre (d.1796); 11.5cm x 10.8cm

Provenance: Previously in the collection of John Whitehead.
Hammer price: £2,600
Estimate: £400 - £600
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 189 Sold
A DUTCH DECORATED KAKIEMON DISH
c.1710-20, the centre painted with the "Hob in the Well" design within a dense floral border, 21.5cm diameter

Provenance: Bt. Vincent L'Herrou, Ceramics Fair, June 2002.

This celebrated pattern derives from the Chinese story of the 11th century Statesman Sima Guang (Jp. Shiba Onko), illustrating lateral thinking and presence of mind. When as a boy, his friend fell into a giant water-jar and as Guang was not strong enough to pull him out, he took a large stone and smashed the jar.
The English name apparently derives from the name of a farce by Colley Cibber of 1711 Flora or Hob…
Hammer price: £1,700
Estimate: £300 - £600
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 190 Sold
A RARE ARITA GILT-METAL MOUNTED FAMILLE VERTE STYLE TEAPOT
late 17th – early 18th century, the ovoid body with two inset heart-shaped relief-decorated cavities, one showing a lion beside flowers, the other with flowers among rocks, surrounded by leafy tendrils, the shoulder with a foliate diaper band, the foot painted to suggest a lotus flower, flanked by a loop handle and bamboo-form spout; the cover, handle and spout with Dutch gilt-metal mounts, each with a figural finial and joined by a chain, 15.9cm long
Provenance: The Gillingham Collection, Sotheby’s London, 19th April 2000, lot 410.Exhibited: "The…
Hammer price: £2,600
Estimate: £300 - £500
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 191 Sold
A JAPANESE DEEP PLATE
painted in Holland by the Fine Line decorator with Leda, partly draped in pink over her right arm caressing the swan, her feet in the river, Cupid behind on her left in a river landscape, the border with alternating pineapples and shells joined by scrolls, 21cm diameter

Illustrated: Espir p.126, 127, p1. 15 & 16.
The bottle in the Princessehof of Leenwander from the Ottema-Kingma Foundation has many…
Hammer price: £1,000
Estimate: £300 - £600
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
Lot 192 Unsold
A JAPANESE LACQUER BOX
Meiji, of rectangular form decorated with scrolling leafy tendrils and stylised foliage on a gold speckled ground, 20cm wide
Estimate: £150 - £300
8 March 2023
8 March 2023

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