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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

Lot Title Estimate Hammer price
25 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…
£200 - £400 £2,000 View
26 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.…
£500 - £1,000 - View
27 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…
£50 - £100 £260 View
28 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
£50 - £100 £750 View
29 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…
£500 - £1,000 £1,300 View
30 A VINCENNES WHITE POT POURRI VASE
circa 1748-50, the vase leaning against a tree trunk with applied flowers, 17.5cm high
£300 - £600 £550 View
31 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…
£500 - £1,000 £1,100 View
32 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.
£200 - £400 £300 View
33 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…
£100 - £200 £380 View
34 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,…
£200 - £400 £280 View
35 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…
£10,000 - £20,000 £17,500 View
36 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…
£50 - £100 £50 View
37 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
£300 - £600 £400 View
38 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,…
£80 - £150 £340 View
39 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…
£150 - £250 £800 View
40 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,…
£300 - £600 £700 View
41 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
£200 - £400 £320 View
42 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…
£300 - £600 £550 View
43 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…
£200 - £400 £800 View
44 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…
£200 - £400 £560 View
45 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…
£150 - £250 £320 View
46 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.
£50 - £100 £330 View
47 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
£100 - £200 £240 View
48 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…
£80 - £160 £500 View

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