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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.

Lot	Title	Estimate	Hammer price
145	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	£500 - £1,000	£1,600	View
146	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…	£200 - £400	£200	View
147	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	£100 - £200	£300	View
148	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	£100 - £200	£1,100	View
149	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.…	£100 - £200	£550	View
150	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.…	£100 - £200	£360	View
151	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…	£200 - £400	£1,000	View
152	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…	£200 - £400	£800	View
153	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…	£150 - £250	£420	View
154	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…	£100 - £200	£460	View
155	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.…	£300 - £600	£4,200	View
156	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…	£50 - £100	£340	View
157	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,…	£50 - £100	£240	View
158	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…	£100 - £200	£440	View
159	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…	£50 - £100	£120	View
160	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…	£100 - £200	£4,200	View
161	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…	£150 - £250	£850	View
162	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…	£100 - £200	£200	View
163	A DARK YIXING TEAPOT probably Kangxi, moulded in naturalistic form, with flowering prunus highlighted in gilt, 14cm high	£80 - £150	£240	View
164	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…	£200 - £400	£1,400	View
165	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,…	£100 - £200	£550	View
166	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…	£100 - £200	£170	View
167	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,…	£100 - £200	£300	View
168	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…	£400 - £600	£800	View
169	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…	£150 - £250	£800	View
170	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…	£500 - £1,000	£4,000	View
171	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…	£100 - £200	£1,000	View
172	A CHINESE BALUSTER VASE Qing or later, decorated in a pale celadon crackle glaze, 21cm high	£80 - £150	£300	View
173	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. …	£50 - £100	£260	View
174	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…	£100 - £200	£600	View
175	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…	£500 - £1,000	£7,000	View
176	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	£100 - £200	£400	View
177	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…	£200 - £400	£800	View
178	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…	£100 - £200	£160	View
179	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.	£50 - £100	£120	View
180	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,…	£1,500 - £2,500	-	View
181	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) …	£200 - £400	£400	View
182	A CHINESE HARDWOOD BRUSH POT (BITONG) with a moulded rim and a similar base with three shaped feet, 13.5cm diameter	£500 - £1,000	£650	View
183	CHINESE SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY a set of five scrolls depicting equestrian figures, archers and figures hunting, 102.5cm (the largest)	£200 - £400	£280	View
184	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…	£500 - £1,000	-	View
185	A JAPANESE ARITA CHARGER Edo, decorated with figures in a landscape, one flying a flag, with pagodas in the distance, 39cm diameter	£150 - £250	£1,000	View
186	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.…	£50 - £100	£400	View
187	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…	£100 - £200	£480	View
188	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…	£400 - £600	£2,600	View
189	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…	£300 - £600	£1,700	View
190	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…	£300 - £500	£2,600	View
191	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…	£300 - £600	£1,000	View
192	A JAPANESE LACQUER BOX Meiji, of rectangular form decorated with scrolling leafy tendrils and stylised foliage on a gold speckled ground, 20cm wide	£150 - £300	-	View

Total lots: 261

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