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The du Boulay Collection

Absentee bids accepted until Wednesday, 8 March 2023

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

A MEISSEN MINIATURE VASE
Lot 73 Sold
A MEISSEN MINIATURE VASE
circa 1735, of baluster form with two puce highlighted handles decorated overall in the Imari palette with chrysanthemum and roaring dragon, the base with a crossed swords mark and impressed “U”, 4.8cm high

Provenance: Bt. Duke’s, 10th February 2011, lot 254.
Hammer price: £360
Estimate: £100 - £200
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
A MEISSEN RED DRAGON PATTERN TWO HANDLED BEAKER AND SAUCER
Lot 74 Sold
A MEISSEN RED DRAGON PATTERN TWO HANDLED BEAKER AND SAUCER
circa 1730-35, painted in characteristic tones of coral and gilding, the cup with painted “KHC” mark, the saucer with puce crossed sword mark, the saucer 13cm diameter

Provenance: The cup bt. Armin Allen 14th April 1989
(Christie’s London 30th November 1987)
the saucer lot 100 Sotheby’s 1996.
The saucer Andreina Torré Collection.
Bt. E. Manners, November 1996.
Hammer price: £900
Estimate: £300 - £600
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
A MEISSEN FABELTIERE PLATE
Lot 75 Sold
A MEISSEN FABELTIERE PLATE
circa 1736, painted in the manner of Adam Friedrich Von Löwenfinck with a collared dog with hoof feet, recumbent, with a worm in its’ mouth, in a Kakiemon style landscape, a butterfly above a waved border with a brown rim, with blue crossed swords mark, 23cm diameter

Provenance: Bt. Woolley & Wallis, 12th October 2010, lot 503.
Hammer price: £900
Estimate: £300 - £600
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
A MEISSEN HAUSMALERI BOWL
Lot 76 Sold
A MEISSEN HAUSMALERI BOWL
blue crossed swords mark circa 1755, probably painted by F.E. Mayer of Pressnitz with three pairs of figures strolling in a landscape, with a brick obelisk within elaborate gilt scroll border, 16.5cm diameter

Provenance: Bt. R & G McPherson Antiques, 16th June 2006.
Hammer price: £420
Estimate: £300 - £600
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
AN EARLY MEISSEN PEAR-SHAPED MILK JUG
Lot 77 Sold
AN EARLY MEISSEN PEAR-SHAPED MILK JUG
circa 1726-30, with sparrowbeak spout, enamelled in Holland with flower sprays including two iris and two butterflies, probably painted by a hausmaler of German descent in this particularly fine line manner, 10cm high

Provenance: Helen Espir Collection no. 860.
Bt. R & G McPherson Antiques, 12th June 2013.
Hammer price: £450
Estimate: £200 - £400
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
A MEISSEN OCTOFOIL BEAKER AND SAUCER
Lot 78 Sold
A MEISSEN OCTOFOIL BEAKER AND SAUCER
circa 1726, painted in the Kakiemon style with flowers and bound hedges, blue crossed swords mark and incised “N = 358 W”, 14.8cm diameter, the beaker 6.5cm high
Hammer price: £1,300
Estimate: £200 - £300
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
A MEISSEN WALL BRACKET
Lot 79 Sold
A MEISSEN WALL BRACKET
circa 1760, with a pierced support, the border encrusted with flowers, the support with puce and gilt foliage and wave ornament, 32cm high, 31.75cm wide

Provenance: Christie's, 13th March 1967, lot 132.
Hammer price: £340
Estimate: £200 - £400
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
AN EARLY MEISSEN CHINOISERIE ARCHITECTURAL STAND
Lot 80 Sold
AN EARLY MEISSEN CHINOISERIE ARCHITECTURAL STAND
circa 1728-30, the centre painted by J.G. Herold, of shaped concave section, with winged masks spouting water into a basin supported by grotesque figures above a fountain figure in a yellow ground cartouche, 27cm wide

Provenance: Ex. Maurice de Rothschild Collection October 17th 1977, lot 27.
Bt. Christie’s 10th February 1979, lot 272 for £1,003.
Hammer price: £1,200
Estimate: £800 - £1,500
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
A PAIR OF LOUIS XV ORMOLU AND MEISSEN CANDLESTICKS
Lot 81 Sold
A PAIR OF LOUIS XV ORMOLU AND MEISSEN CANDLESTICKS
circa 1755, formed as miniature figures of a lady and gentleman with muffs, standing on pierced flower encrusted pedestals, with ormolu bases, nozzles and branches with porcelain flowers, 21.5cm high (2)

Provenance: Margaret Dunlap Behn.
Bt. Christie’s New York, 3rd December 1977, lot 326.
Hammer price: £950
Estimate: £500 - £1,000
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
A BÖTTGER HAUSMALEREI BOWL
Lot 82 Sold
A BÖTTGER HAUSMALEREI BOWL
circa 1715-1720, the decoration later circa 1720-1725, the decoration attributed to J.J. Autenwerth, finely gilded with equestrian figures in landscapes with ruins, the everted lip with a band of leaves, 18cm diameter
Hammer price: £600
Estimate: £400 - £600
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
A BÖTTGER HAUSMALEREI BOWL
Lot 83 Sold
A BÖTTGER HAUSMALEREI BOWL
the bowl circa 1715-20, the decoration circa 1725-30 and attributed to Ignaz Preissler, Breslau, finely decorated in Schwarzlot and gilding, the exterior with a continuous scene including Leda and the Swan, harbour scenes with ships and merchants and Cupid and Venus by a dolphin fountain, the interior with a circular harbour scene, 18cm diameter

Provenance: Christie’s, 29th November 2011, lot 20.
Bt. E & H Manners, June 2012.
Hammer price: £3,400
Estimate: £3,000 - £6,000
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
A BÖTTGER HAUSMALEREI TWO-HANDLED BEAKER
Lot 84 Sold
A BÖTTGER HAUSMALEREI TWO-HANDLED BEAKER
circa 1725, the decoration circa 1745, painted by F. J. Ferner with a male and female musician standing and seated by trees, the interior rim gilt with scrolling foliage, 8.3cm high

Provenance: Bt. Christie’s, 22nd March 2011, lot 525.
Roy Byrnes Children’s Trust.
Hammer price: £380
Estimate: £200 - £400
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
A HAUSMALERI BERLIN CYLINDRICAL COFFEE CUP
Lot 85 Sold
A HAUSMALERI BERLIN CYLINDRICAL COFFEE CUP
circa 1780, painted with a peasant smoking and seated on a tree stump, blue mark, 6cm high
Hammer price: £90
Estimate: £50 - £100
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
A BERLIN PORCELAIN COFFEE CAN
Lot 86 Sold
A BERLIN PORCELAIN COFFEE CAN
circa 1790-1800, painted with a putto beside a clock face on an obelisk with an inscription below “Ich Zahkedue Stunden Des Wiedersenens” in a floral wreath border, with sceptre mark in blue, 6cm high

Provenance: Bt. Duke’s, 30th July 2015, lot 214.
Hammer price: £200
Estimate: £50 - £100
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
A CHINESE SAUCER
Lot 87 Sold
A CHINESE SAUCER
circa 1750-60, painted in Schwarzlot in Holland, with figures and a church in a landscape outlined with gilt scrolls

Provenance: Bt. R & G McPherson Antiques, 14th June 2012.

The part service illustrated by G. Walsh “European Decoration on Chinese Art”, p.137, also Espir, op.cit. p.190, fig.45.
Hammer price: £150
Estimate: £100 - £200
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
A CHINESE TEA BOWL
Lot 88 Sold
A CHINESE TEA BOWL
the decoration circa 1725-30, of shallow form, painted in Schwarzlot with a rider and hounds bringing down a deer in a landscape with ruins, in the style associated with Ignaz Preissler, a moth and a fly inside with underglaze blue conch shell mark, the porcelain circa1713-20, the decoration circa 1720-2; together with an associated Böttger saucer, painted in Schwarzlot subtly enriched in gold by Ignaz Preissler of Breslau with a harbour scene with diminishing pairs of figures and classical ruins behind
of the finest and most beautiful quality by Preissler himself, 12.5cm diameter
Hammer price: £2,900
Estimate: £500 - £1,000
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
A KAPUZINER-BRAUN CLOBBERED TEA BOWL AND SAUCER
Lot 89 Sold
A KAPUZINER-BRAUN CLOBBERED TEA BOWL AND SAUCER
circa 1735, the decoration circa 1810, reserved with underglaze blue floral medallions, coloured later and gilt with birds and insects, with blue crossed sword marks and press no. “6”, 9cm high

Provenance: Martha L. Isaacson, Sotheby’s, 22nd May 2001, part lot 184.
Bt. Christie’s, “White Gold”, 12th May 2010, lot 157.
Roy Byrnes Collection.
Hammer price: £460
Estimate: £50 - £100
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
A HOCHST FIGURE OF VENUS OR “LA BAIGNEUSE”, AFTER FALCONET
Lot 90 Sold
A HOCHST FIGURE OF VENUS OR “LA BAIGNEUSE”, AFTER FALCONET
standing nude beside a tree stump draped in a cloak, on a grassy mound base, incised on the back “I.P. Melchior F.1771”, blue crowned wheel mark, 19cm high

Provenance: Bt. Yvonne Adams (Stow-on-the-Wold), summer 2006.
Hammer price: £500
Estimate: £300 - £600
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
A NYMPHENBURG COLOURED FIGURE OF AEOLUS
Lot 91 Sold
A NYMPHENBURG COLOURED FIGURE OF AEOLUS
circa 1760, modelled by Bustelli, standing nude with drapery falling from his left thigh, holding a bag of wind at his side, with impressed Bavarian shield on sack, 10.5cm high

Provenance: Collection Levi of Montevideo, Christie’s 3rd July 1956, part lot 39.

Exhibited: Apparently the Bayerische National Museum during the Second World War.
Hammer price: £220
Estimate: £200 - £400
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
A NYMPHENBURG WHITE FIGURE OF A PUTTO (FLORA)
Lot 92 Sold
A NYMPHENBURG WHITE FIGURE OF A PUTTO (FLORA)
circa 1760, modelled by Bustelli standing nude with body turned and drapery falling from the waist, with impressed Bavarian shield mark, 10.5cm high

Provenance: Collection Levi of Montevideo, Christie’s, 3rd July 1956, lot 25.

Exhibited: Apparently the Bayerische National Museum during the Second World War.
Hammer price: £480
Estimate: £300 - £600
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
A NYMPHENBURG GROUP OF LOVERS
Lot 93 Sold
A NYMPHENBURG GROUP OF LOVERS
late 18th century, first modelled by Franz Anton Bustelli in 1760, the lovers seated on scrollwork, a dog at their feet, a billy goat recumbent on a ruin, incised “45” in the rockwork, “Das Liebespaar in der Ruine”, 27cm high

Provenance: Christie’s, 29th November 1976, lot 88.
Bt. Christie’s New York, 4th November 1981, lot 471.

Exhibited: Dallas Convention Centre Loan Collection, March 17th-20th 1977 no. 22.
Hammer price: £3,400
Estimate: £500 - £1,000
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
A NYMPHENBURG GROUP OF “THE SLEEPER DISTURBED”
Lot 94 Sold
A NYMPHENBURG GROUP OF “THE SLEEPER DISTURBED”
circa 1770, after a model by Franz Anton Bustelli, with a farm boy curled up asleep in a series of “C”-scrolls leaning against an obelisk, beside a farm girl playing the xylophone, and a dog, on a shaped shallow grassy mound, the base edged with scrolls enriched in colours, with impressed Bavarian shield mark, 24cm high

Provenance: Anonymous sale, Christie’s London, 4th December 1978, lot 117.
Christie’s, 11th December 2007, lot 136.
Bt. from E & H Manners, 3rd April 2008.
Hammer price: £5,500
Estimate: £1,000 - £2,000
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
A “FRANKFURT” TIN-GLAZED EWER
Lot 95 Sold
A “FRANKFURT” TIN-GLAZED EWER
early 18th century, of spherical shape with a tapering cylindrical neck and a “C”-shaped handle, decorated in underglaze blue with chinoiserie scenes, with pewter lid and thumbpiece, 23cm high overall

Provenance: Bt. Duke’s, 20th September 2001, lot 261.
Hammer price: £130
Estimate: £150 - £250
8 March 2023
8 March 2023
A VIENNA (DU PAQUIER) BEAKER AND SAUCER
Lot 96 Sold
A VIENNA (DU PAQUIER) BEAKER AND SAUCER
circa 1725-30, the beaker decorated with a continuous Oriental landscape with a pavilion, flowering plants and a tree, the saucer with a pagoda and rockwork within underglaze blue foliage, the border with three panels of diaper-dash pattern, incised “Z” to saucer, the saucer, 13.5cm diameter

Provenance: John F. Hayward Collection, London. Stanley Ungar Collection.
The property of a lady, sale Christie’s New York, 23rd April 1998, lot 207 (part the saucer).
Anonymous sale Lempertz Cologne, 14th-16th May 1998 lot 127 (part, the beaker). Christie’s “White…
Hammer price: £950
Estimate: £400 - £600
8 March 2023
8 March 2023

Total lots: 261

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