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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

A SILVER CARRIAGE CLOCK
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
A SILVER ROYAL PRESENTATION CIGARETTE BOX
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
A CHINESE SANCAI OVOID VASE
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
A "LONGQUAN" CELADON VASE
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
A DEHUA OCTAGONAL BEAKER,
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
A DEHUA OCTAGONAL BEAKER
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
A DEHUA OCTAGONAL BEAKER
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
A DEHUA OCTAGONAL BEAKER
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
A DEHUA OCTAGONAL BEAKER
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
A DEHUA OCTAGONAL BEAKER
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
A DEHUA BLANC DE CHINE BEAKER
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
A LIMEHOUSE DECORATED DEHUA TEA BOWL
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
A DEHUA LOBED SAUCER DISH
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
A DEHUA BLANC DE CHINE TEAPOT AND COVER
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
A DEHUA MUG
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
A DEHUA BLANC DE CHINE TEAPOT AND COVER
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
A DEHUA PEAR-SHAPED BLANC-DE-CHINE EWER
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
A ‘RED’ YIXING LOTUS-FORM TEAPOT
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
A DARK YIXING TEAPOT
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
A ‘RED’ YIXING HEXAGONAL TEAPOT
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
A CHINESE TEA BOWL AND SAUCER
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
A CHINESE CUP AND SAUCER
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
A CHINESE TEA POT
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
A CHINESE CYLINDRICAL VASE
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
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Total lots: 261

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