THE SARAH BELK GAMBRELL COLLECTION OF EUROPEAN PORCELAIN

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1 2 Elizabeth I Silver-Mounted Rhenish Böttger Red Stoneware Coffee Pot and Cover Saltglazed 'Tigerware' Jug Circa 1710-15, designed by J.J. Irminger Circa 1580, the silver mount inscribed on the Of squared pear form, the conforming domed hinge 'PETER ELY, OBT. 1684', on the cover cover with pagoda knop, the scroll handle with 'GEO. GUNNING 1815 WATERLOO' and on the channeled sides and a studded exterior, the underside of the foot 'GIVEN BY KING squared curved spout issuing from the gaping CHARLES THE SECOND' and 'G.G. TO M.G. jaws of a scaly serpent, a double-scroll bridge 1834' support above, each side of the body lightly Globular with cylindrical neck and loop handle polished, on a flaring stepped square foot. mottled in brown, the repoussé cover caste with Height 7 3/4 inches, width 6 1/2 inches. masks and fruit below a putto and shield finial, the hinge with a double-headed eagle thumbrest, Provenance: the scalloped foot with ovolo border. Sotheby's, Zurich, 26 June 1971, lot 16. Height 7 1/2 inches. For an example of this shape, see Rainier Provenance: Rückert, Meissener Porzellan, pl. 7, no. 18. For Family tradition states that the jug was presented another with spout tip and finial replaced, see from Charles II to his Chaplain Peter Gunning, Hans Syz, J. Jefferson Miller II, Rainer Rückert, Bishop of Ely thence by descent to the present 1979, Catalogue of the Hans Syz Collection: owner. Meissen Porcelain and Hausmalerei, pp. 16-17 Vyvyan Drury, Esq. (now Smithsonian Art Institute, Washington Christies, London, 1 July 1970, lot 92. D.C.). A similar example was sold, Christie's, C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell London 1 March 1993, lot 159. A polished brown $3,000-5,000 stoneware example was sold, Christie's, London, 5 July 2004, lot 6. Also see the example illustrated by Ulrich Pietsch, 'Early Meissen Porcelain' Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte der Hansestadt Lübeck', 14th November 1993-31st January 1994, and others 26th February-30th April 1994 Exhibition Catalogue (Lübeck, 1993), pp. 20-21, no 2.

The Dresden court-goldsmith Johann Jakob Irminger (1635-1724) was recorded at the Meissen Factory between (1710-24). In the 1770 inventory of the Dresden Royal Collection in the Japanese Palace, 35 of these coffee-pots were recorded. Examples of this shape appear in plain stoneware, polished, black-glazed, enameled and bedecked with mounts and jewels. This form is a hybrid design of Far Eastern and European styles. The spout emerging from the jaws of a serpent and the bridge support follow Chinese conventions in the making of tea and wine pots, while the handle on the pot follows European conventions in the Baroque style C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $20,000-30,000

3 Böttger White Porcelain Beaker Circa 1720 Of flaring conical form, finely potted with everted rim, the lower body applied with three asymmetric sprays of acanthus leaves, above a short foot. Height 4 inches.

Provenance:

Parke-Bernet Galleries, 14 May 1970, lot 267.

For a waste-bowl and a coffee-pot with strikingly similar applied decoration, see Hans Syz with J. Jefferson Miller II and Rainer Rückert, The Catalogue of the Hans Syz Collection: Meissen Porcelain and Hausmalerei, fig. 16, p. 42-43, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C., cat nos. 75.186 and 75.187. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $400-600

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4 6 Böttger White Porcelain Teapot and Cover Meissen Porcelain Documentary Single- Circa 1715 Handled Hausmalerei Beaker In the manner of blanc-de-chine, the barrel form Initialed and dated in puce H.G./ v./ B./ 1732. for with high loop handle, the curved spout issuing Hans Gottlieb von Bressler of Breslau from the gaping jaws of a scaly serpent, the Of tapering conical form with slightly everted rim domed cover with a pierced ball finial, applied and single gilt wish-bone handle, the upper front and back and to the cover with flowering register finely painted in camaïeu puce with a chrysanthemum sprays, the spout interior set continuous landscape of frolicking Bacchanalian with a pierced metal strainer. putti carrying grapes, playing blind-man's bluff, Height 5 1/4 inches, width overall 6 inches. making music on a drum, trumpet and tambourine and the last relieving himself at the Provenance: base of a monument, the lower body molded Sotheby's, Zurich, 26 June 1971, lot 15. with flutes, the interior, footrim and recessed banding enriched with gilt. For a similar teapot and cover from the Hanley Height 3 1/8 inches. Collection, see Sotheby's, London, 15 May 2014, lot 119. This pot previously sold Phillips, London, Provenance: 7th December 1994, lot 19. Another example of Graf. Bressler, Schloss Lauske. a teapot of this form with identical applied Leopold R. Gellert Collection. molding was sold at Sotheby's, Zurich, on 26th Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 14 May 1970, June 1971, lot 15. A flask with the same lot 266. decoration is illustrated by Ernst Zimmermann, Meissner Porzellan, pl. 83. Literature: C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell Gustave Pazaurek, Deutsche Porzellan und $10,000-15,000 Hausmaler, 1925, Vol. I, fig. 169.

Hans Gottlieb von Bressler's work is discussed in 5 detail by G. Pazaurek, where he quotes W.B. Böttger White Porcelain Hausmalerei Honey saying, the importance of this cup is Commedia dell'Arte Beaker considerable as "Bressler's work is so rare". Circa 1720, the painted decoration circa 1730 and attributed to F.F. Mayer of Pressnitz Count von Bressler studied under the celebrated Of conical form with everted rim, the interior Hausmaler Ignaz Bottengruber also of Breslau. edge with a gilt foliate band, the exterior molded Bressler is remembered as a painter on with flowering prunus branches and alternately porcelain for his own pleasure. In 1766, he is enameled with a holzschnitt-Blumen tulip and a recorded as the mayor of Breslau. dianthus growing in a garden and with a figure of a black faced Harlequin depicted gesturing in A strikingly similar example from the R. Thornton typical diamond-pattern costume, a dagger Wilson Collection is conserved at the tucked in a sash at his waist, on a recessed Metropolitan Museum, New York, accession no. double ring foot-rim. 50.211.242. Here the putti play similar games Height 3 1/8 inches. and instruments before a walled garden versus a dais and a distant village landscape Provenance: C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell Christie's, London, 16 March 1970, lot 73. $6,000-9,000

Previously attributed to the workshop of Johann Philip Dannhöfer (1712-1790). porcelain.

Mayer of Pressnitz, was active as a Hausmaler on Meissen porcelain between 1735-40.

For a Japanese Palace Böttger blanc-de-chine beaker, circa 1720, offered together with a Chinese prototype, see Christie's, London 5 July 2004, lot 3. These early examples also noted as having a double concentric footrim.

For a later part tea-service with similar decoration, compare the Meissen prunus-molded Hausmalerei service, circa 1730, attributed to Franz Ferdinand Mayer, illustrated by Hans Syz, J. Jefferson Miller II, Rainer Rückert, 1979, Catalogue of the Hans Syz Collection: Meissen Porcelain and Hausmalerei, pp. 538-539 1979.0120.11ab and now Smithsonian Art Institute, Washington D.C. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $2,000-4,000

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7 9 Meissen Porcelain Hexagonal Tea Canister Meissen Porcelain Chinoiserie Coffee Pot and Cover and Cover Circa 1725-30, gilder's 19. to caddy and cover, Circa 1730, in the manner of J.G. Höroldt, painted in the manner of J.G. Höroldt and his gilder's 84. to the cover and pot, the footrim with follower P.E. Schindler Dreher's mark of two dots for Johann Martin Of ribbed-baluster form, finely painted with six Kittel the Younger recessed panels of large standing chinoiserie Of pear shape with gilt funnel spout and figures at various pursuits on grassy terraces, indianische-Blumen decorated scroll handle, one panel with a male figure holding a pike, a finely painted front and back with paired Chinese second holding a pennant while being offered figures in gardens, one with a seated gentleman tea, a third depicts a female figure holding a fan and attendant, the other with two men and cup, accompanied by a child resting a tray conversing beneath a parasol, each within an and pot on a table, a fourth with a male holding a elaborate Böttger-lustre and gilt cartouche, ribbon-tied basket, a fifth depicts a male figure trimmed with iron-red scrollwork, the neck with with bells amusing a child, and the sixth Laub-und-Bandelwerk, the conforming domed presenting a sculpted figure balanced on a cover with a flattened spire finial above strutting platter, the ribs and rims enriched with gilt bands, birds in landscape. the recessed top of the cylindrical cover with a Height 7 7/8 inches, width 5 1/4 inches. gilt chased floral circlet within a gilt line. Height 4 inches. At Meissen in 1723-1724, Johann Gregorius Höroldt began compiling over 1000 Chinoiserie Provenance: sketches for a design book known as the Sotheby's, London, 16 March 1970, lot 125. 'Schulz-Codex'. By 1730, he was supervising forty-six painters of chinoiseries. For an For a similar example, see the Forsythe Wickes Augsburg silver-gilt mounted example dated Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 1723-24, see the Victoria & Albert Museum, accession no. 65.2048a-b. Also see Christie's, London, museum no. C.52-1909. For a similar London sales, 7 October 1996, lot 377 for an example with a married cover, see Christie's, example attributed to Schindler and 6 December New York, 7 June 2013, lot 340. 2004, lot 406 for another in the manner of C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell Höroldt. $10,000-15,000 C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $6,000-9,000 10 Meissen Porcelain Chinoiserie Tea Kettle and 8 Cover Meissen Porcelain Two-Handled Chinoiserie Circa 1730-35, blue crossed swords mark and II, Beaker and a Saucer painted in the manner of J.G. Höroldt and his Circa 1730, blue crossed swords marks and follower P.E. Schindler gilder's 3. or 5., both painted in the manner of Of squared pear shape with recessed squared J.G. Höroldt curved spout, each side of the pot finely painted The tapering conical beaker flanked by gilt with chinoiserie figures at leisure pursuits on wishbone handles, finely painted with either a terraces, some taking tea while others tempt Chinese figure seated at a table before a palm birds with lures and food, another holds a child tree or with figures pursuing butterflies, the as an unfurled message scroll is delivered, the saucer with two figure preparing and serving tea, cover similarly decorated about a flattened each within an ombrierte quatrefoil shaped panel square finial, the gilt edged swing handle with edged by a Böttger-lustre and a gilt cartouche, blackened gilt-metal mount and chain trimmed with iron-red scrollwork, the border with attachment, all resting on four incurved corner Laub-und-Bandelwerk and gilt line rims, the bracket feet. underside with iron-red flower sprays. Height 6 1/2 inches, width overall 4 3/4 inches. Height 3 1/8 inches, width overall 5 1/2 inches. Provenance: Provenance: Sotheby's, Geneva, 20 November 1970, lot 396. The Wetmore Estate, Newport, RI. Parke-Bernet Galleries, 16-18 September 1969, An almost identical pot of this rare form is lot 817. illustrated by Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Porzellan, p. 67, pl. 32; and another is illustrated For similar Chinoiserie decorated examples, see in the Catalogue of the Hermann Emden Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810, Collection, sold at Rudolph Lempke in Berlin on pp. 48-49. Another example was sold, Christie's, November 4, 1908, lot 498, pl. 48. Also see London, 2 July 1990, lot 61. Christie's, Geneva, 8 May 1989, lot 65. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $4,000-6,000 $15,000-25,000

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11 13 Meissen Porcelain Hausmalerei 'Fels Und Japanese Porcelain Arita Kakiemon Vogel' Teapot and Cover Decagonal Bowl The porcelain circa 1725-30, blue crossed Late Edo Period, circa 1700, unmarked swords and dot mark, the decoration attributed to Finely painted with translucent enamels in the the workshop of F.J. Ferner circa 1745 Kakiemon palette, the exterior with female Of globular form with loop handle, the domed figures in kimonos among banded hedges and cover with a gilt ball finial, the curved spout with flowering shrubs, the interior with two running a mask terminal, painted in underglaze blue and boys, each enticing a kylin with a tethered peony enriched with gold-Malerei and colored enamels, blossom, the everted brown line rim richly each side with a bird in flight by berried shrubs decorated with an interrupted band of scrolling issuing from rockwork, the cover similarly foliage. decorated. Diameter 9 1/4 inches. Height 6 1/2 inches, width overall 7 inches. Provenance: For a slightly variant example, see Christie's, Baron Dimsdale. London, 5 July 2004, lot 34. For a composite Sotheby's, London, 7 July 1970, lot 130. service in this pattern including a teapot, see Christie's, New York, See Same Jenyns, Japanese Porcelain, pl. 67B. 23 May 2002, lot 280. Also see Sotheby's, New The pattern was copied in the early years of the York, 27 October 2001, lot 5. factory at Meissen. For an example, reference C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell the previous entry. Also see Masako Shono, $1,000-1,500 Artiaporzellan als Vorbild für Meissen, pl. 128, for comparison examples illustrated together. For a pair of Bow bowls and stands in this pattern, 12 see lot 46 in the present sale. Meissen Porcelain Kakiemon Decagonal C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell Bowl $12,000-18,000 Circa 1730, blue crossed swords mark Boldly painted with opaque enamels in the Kakiemon palette, the exterior with female 14 figures in kimonos among banded hedges and Meissen Porcelain Yellow-Ground Octagonal flowering shrubs, the interior with two boys, each Beaker and Saucer enticing a kylin with a tethered peony blossom, Circa 1735, blue crossed swords mark and black the everted brown line rim richly decorated with line to both, the decoration attributed to C.F. an interrupted band of scrolling foliage. Herold Height 4 inches, diameter 9 inches. The beaker painted in puce camaïeu with a figure on a hill overlooking a fortified tower Provenance: before a harbor quay within a shaped quatrefoil Baron Dimsdale. surround, the saucer with a circular pastoral Sotheby's, London, 7 July 1970, lot 131. vignette of a seated figure beneath a tree before a distant tower, within concentric puce lines, both This rare pattern is found on a vase in the with gilt line rims. Klemperer Collection, pl. 19, no. 183 and on a Height 3 1/8 inches, diameter 5 1/4 inches. teapot illustrated by Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan, pl. 64, no. 238. Provenance: Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 16 October Thomas Dimsdale (1712-1800) was a physician 1969, lot 214. and the author of The Present Method of Inoculating for the Smallpox in 1767. Empress Christian Friedrich Herold (1700-1779) was a Catherine II of Russia invited him to Russia to painter on porcelain at Berlin and moved to inoculate her son, Grand Duke Paul and Meissen in 1725. At Meissen he painted for over approximately 100 other members of the court. fifty years and is best known for his chinoiserie She thanked the physician by making him a figure painting and for monochrome harbor views Baron of the Russian Empire. His son Nathaniel, in either puce or black. who had accompanied him on the journey, For a similar teacup and saucer, see Sotheby's, received the same title. London, 4 May 1970, lot 112 C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $15,000-25,000 $2,000-3,000

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15 16 Meissen Porcelain Ogival Quatrefoil Bowl Meissen Porcelain Documentary Dated from the 'Christie-Miller Service' Ogival Quatrefoil Bowl from the 'Christie- Circa 1740, blue crossed swords mark Miller Service' The exterior painted with a continuous scene of Circa 1740, blue crossed swords mark a hawking party on horseback and on foot The exterior painted with a continuous scene, gathering beside a statue, the obverse with a one side with figures examining books being hunting party gathering by an urn, both with a written by a seated man beside a fountain detailed riverside view of a distant town or flanked by statuary and a picnic basket, the village, above a broad gilt diaper trellis reserved obverse with equestrian figures and horn with four purpur-Malerei equestrian or quayside players, set against a distant view of scenes, the interior with a bouquet of deutsche- monasteries and cities divided by water, above a Blumen, within a border of gilt ombrierte shells broad gilt diaper trellis reserved with four purpur- and interlocking scrolls and foliage reserved with Malerei vignettes of peasants at work, quay four polychrome quatrefoil panels of landscapes scenes, figures in landscapes and country villas, and harbor scenes, shaped gilt line rim. the interior with a loose bouquet of deutsche- Height 3 3/8 inches, diameter 9 5/8 inches. Blumen, within a border of gilt ombrierte shells and interlocking scrolls and foliage reserved with Provenance: four polychrome quatrefoil panels of harbor Samuel R. Christie-Miller Collection. shipping scenes and German landscapes views, Sotheby's, London, 7 July 1970, lot 23. one of which depicts two figures passing a signpost bearing the date '1740', shaped gilt line Though arguably of the highest quality, the rim. original commission and provenance of this Height 3 3/8 inches, diameter 9 5/8 inches. service is still obscure. By tradition pieces of the service were in the possession of the Christie- Provenance: Miller family as early as the 1840's and by Samuel R. Christie-Miller Collection. association it has taken their name. The family Sotheby's, London, 7 July 1970, lot 18. history holds that their selection was acquired from the noble Orleans family of Paris. Although For additional information see notes to the still unconfirmed, leading scholar have preceding and following lots. suggested that the service may have been a gift C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell from Augustus III to the French Court. This $30,000-50,000 supposition is supported by the quality of the decoration, executed by the factory's leading painters including Christian Friedrich Herold, and Bonaventura Gottlieb Häuer and Georg Heintze, and by the timing of the marriage of the Dauphin to Augustus's daughter in 1747. 72 pieces were published by Sotheby's & Co. in 1970s when the Estate of the late Samuel R. Christie-Miller came to auction in London. At that time two other pieces were known. See the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, for a plate, no. 1976-1855, published in 1934 by W.B. Honey, Dresden China, pl. XXIVb; and the dish in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerber, Hamburg, published by Zimmermann in Meissner Porzellan, p. 156, fig. 46.

Many of the views depicted on this service are based on engravings first published in 1679 by the Augsburg printmaker Melchior Küsel after works by Johann Wilhelm Baur and other artists . The Italian and German castles, harbors, and landscapes are a mixture of accurate topography and imagination.

The present bowl is one of eight or nine recorded. Four bowls were sold by Sotheby's, London on 7 July 1970; two more by Sotheby's, London on 8 December 1970, of which one is now in the Arnhold Collection, see M. Cassidy- Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain 1710-50, p. 430, no. 180, now Frick Collection, New York, accession number: 2019.9.25. The seventh is in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg; the eighth was published as part of the Anderson Collection and most recently sold, Christie's, London, 12 May 2010, lot 88; and the potential ninth from the Collection formed by C.W. Harris, Esq. sold, Christie's, London, 12 June 1995, lot 231. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $20,000-30,000 Sale Date - 06/24/2021 Page 5

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17 18 Meissen Porcelain Small Octagonal Plate Meissen Porcelain Small Octagonal Plate from the 'Christie-Miller Service' from the 'Christie-Miller Service' Circa 1740, blue crossed swords mark and Circa 1740, blue crossed swords mark and Pressnummer 22. Pressnummer 22. The center finely painted in colors with a view of The center finely painted in colors with a high Count Widman's Palace, the foreground with bluff before a Rhineland river and valley three gentlemen conversing on the loggia below landscape, the foreground with male and female a columned building, with other figures before a figures conversing on a terrace beside a quay, the middle distance with boating figures boardwalk, small boats and the spires of the before a galleon, within a black line octagonal town in the distance, within a black line reserve, the gilt trellis-pattern well reserved with octagonal reserve, the gilt trellis-pattern well four quatrefoil purpur-Malerei vignette panels, reserved with four quatrefoil vignette panels, two two with harbor scenes with galleons, two with with harbor scenes with galleons, two with river landscapes, the border with four further purpur-Malerei river landscapes, the border with vignettes, one with figures in a landscape, four further vignettes, of either landscape or another with a harbor scene, two with river harbor views, within similar quatrefoil cartouches landscapes, one with a Schloss, within similar flanked by gilt ombrierte foliage scrolls, shells quatrefoil cartouches flanked by gilt ombrierte and scrolling panels of line ornament, gilt line foliage scrolls, shells and scrolling panels of line rim. ornament, gilt line rim. Diameter 6 3/4 inches. Diameter 6 3/4 inches. Provenance: Provenance: Samuel R. Christie-Miller Collection. Samuel R. Christie-Miller Collection. Sotheby's, London, 7 July 1970, lot 16 part (1 or Sotheby's, London, 7 July 1970, lot 16 part (1 of 2). 2). For three examples [sold as part of the Christie- The main view on this plate is derived from Miller Collection on 7 July 1970, lots 1, 20, and etchings by Melchior Küsel after Johann Wilhelm 43 and subsequently part of the Pflueger Baur. The figures and columnar building in the Collection], see Hugo Morley-Fletcher, Early foreground closely relate to those engraved in European Porcelain & Faience, as Collected by the Venetian view titled, Prospect desz Pallazz Kiyi and Edward Pflueger, pp. 42-45. These zu Muran dem Conte Widman zu Ständig, 26; three examples are now at the Fine Arts while some of the architectural details appear to Museum Boston. A fourth example, lot 26 of the reference the Neapolitan view Prospect der Christie-Miller sale, entered the Carabelli Schiffen, und Etlicher Pallazzie zu Neapoli alli Collection, Switzerland, see U. Pietsch, Frühes Fondamenti novi, 19. Both of these images can Meissner Porzellan, Sammlung Carabelli be found in the album, Verschiedene ansichte in Catalogue, pp. 242-243, no. 118, and p. 244, Italien, Cärnthen und Friul first published by where he mentions an example in the Pauls Melchior Küsel in 1679. Other print sources by Collection, Switzerland which has a G.H. Küsel for the service include; Underschidliche monogram on the saddlebag of a horse, which Prospecten Welche er in dennen Landen Italiae he attributes to Georg Heintze. For the examples und dan auf seiner Heimreis, Friaul, Kdrnten, in the Hoffmeister Collection, see D. Hoffmeister, Steir, nach dem Leben gezeichnet, In das Kupfer Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts, gebracht durch Mechioren Küssell zu Augsburg Katalog der Sammlung Hoffmeister, Vol. I, nos. (1681) and Iconographia, begreift in sich 96-101. The two Hoffmeister Collection plates Allerhand Meerporten, Gaerten Palatia, so durch subsequently offered by Bonham's on 25th Italia und benachbarten Provincien zu sehen, November 2005, lots 63 and 64. For recent von dem Auctore nach dem Leben gezeichnet, Christie's, London sales, see 12 May 2010, lot Augsburg...durch Mechoir Küssell (1682). 87; 11 December 2007, lot 111; 21 February 2005, lot 95; 7 July 2003, lot 100; and Christie's, See notes to the two preceding and following Geneva, 8 May 1989, lot 103 and 13 November entries. 1989, lots 155 and 156. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $15,000-25,000 See notes to the three preceding entries. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $15,000-25,000

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19 21 Pair of Meissen Porcelain Models of Guinea- Vienna (du Paquier) Porcelain Schwarzlot Fowl (Perlhuhn) Two-Handled Beaker and Saucer Circa 1745, faint blue crossed swords marks, Circa 1725-30 modeled by J.J. Kändler The tapering beaker with slightly everted rim, Naturalistically modeled in opposition standing flanked by double-scroll handles, the thumbpiece astride reeds, with black and white speckled as a bird's head, the cup painted in black and plumage, except for white mid-wing and back highlighted in gilt with Chinese pavilions and feathers, and purple tipped neck feathers, with flowering trees among rockwork, the conforming iron-red combs and wattles, the tree-stump saucer also with a man holding a net beneath a bases applied with turquoise flowerheads and bird in flight, each rim bordered with alternating green leaves. sunbursts and pendants. Height 6 inches, width 5 inches. Height 3 1/2 inches, diameter of saucer 5 1/8 inches. Provenance: From the Coll. of the Duchess of. (partial sticker Provenance: to base). Dr. William P. Harbeson Collection, no. A.V. 12 Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 16 October (collection label). 1969, lot 246. Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 10 December 1971, lot 213. (auction label). The factory records originally list the model in Kändler's Taxa of September 1741: Eine Perl For beakers of this form, but with trembleuse Hennne in Thon poussirt von mittelmassiger saucers, see John F. Hayward, Viennese Grosse, welche ebenfalls Compagnon gegen Porcelain of the Du Pacquier Period, pl. 31a. For eine andere Perlhenne abgeben soll, related Schwarzlot decorated beakers and damitsolche Stucke allzeit gegeneinander sehen. saucers without handles, see Sotheby's, London Similar models are illustrated by Carl Albiker, Die 13 September 1999, lot 112; Christie's, London, Meissner Porzellantiere im 18.Jahrhundert, 1937 5 July 2004, lot 113; and ed., no. 126, and Rainer Ruckert, Meissener www.warnerantiques.com, no. 220675. Porzellan, nos. 1129 and 1130. Additional pairs C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell are conserved by the Landesmuseum, Schwerin, $3,000-5,000 Collection of Erich von Goldschmidt-Rothschild, no. 450 and in the Roussel Collection, Paris, no. 22 157. Ormolu-mounted examples can be found in Vienna (du Paquier) Porcelain Tankard and the Wrightsman Collection Catalogue, Vol. II, pl. Cover 68. Further examples were sold Christie's, New Circa 1725 York, 2 June 2015, lot 392 and Christie's, London, 21 November 2005, lot 116. Of baluster form with flattened bracket handle, C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell the slightly domed cylindrical cover with button finial, painted in the chinoiserie taste with a puce $8,000-12,000 and purpur-Malerei continuous scene of two Chinese figures seated taking tea and playing 20 cards in a tree-lined fenced garden, the obverse Meissen (Marcolini) Porcelain Two-Handled with a pagoda and birds in flight and a small dog Reticulated Centerbowl seated on a table, the cover with a large duck, Circa 1800, blue crossed swords, double line two figures boating and another seated near and star mark bridges, the top with a Laub-und-Bandelwerk In the Neoclassic taste, of flaring circular form cartouche centering stylized masks. with two upright key handles, the sides pierced Height 6 inches. with interlocking gilt ovolo, molded with a large flowerhead and applied with roses, the lower Provenance: section with acanthus and gilt swags, the socle The Wetmore Estate, Newport, RI. applied with garlands and painted with scattered Parke-Bernet Galleries, 16-18 September 1969, flower sprays above a guilloche band. lot 811. Height 9 1/2 inches, width overall 10 1/4 inches. Compare the Wetmore Estate example sold, The Marcolini period takes its name from Count Parke-Bernet Galleries, 16-18 September 1969, Camillo Marcolini, Prime Minister of Saxony and lot 708. At the time of this listing, no other Director of the Meissen works from 1774-1814. examples were extant. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell For an example of this form, see Christie's, $10,000-20,000 London, 22 February 2011, lot 341. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $1,000-2,000

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23 25 Vienna (du Paquier) Porcelain Tankard (Krug) Vienna (du Paquier) Porcelain Tobacco Box, Circa 1730 Cover and Tamper (Tabaktopf) Of barrel form with oxidized-silver banding, the Circa 1730, faint script N. 12 central register painted in iron-red and enriched Rectangular, the square cover with a flattened with trailing peony stems and other flowers in the pierced bracket finial flanked by narrow slots to Oriental taste, the upper and lower registers with receive the flattened lug handles, the dual stylized bands of anthemion and pendants, the function shell-molded tamper, serving as a strapwork scroll handle molded with a mask and horizontal crossbar lock, the sides painted and torso. enriched in gilt in the Japanese taste with Height 4 1/2 inches, width overall 4 3/4 inches. alternate panels of flowering prunus or peonies, each within a trellis surround with trefoil devices Provenance: at the corners, the cover banded with an iron-red Leopold R. Gellert Collection. zig-zag line, the edges with gilt line. Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 14 May 1970, Height 6 1/4 inches, width 4 1/4 inches. lot 246. Provenance: For an example in the Österreichisches Museum The Wetmore Estate, Newport, RI. für Angewandte Kunst, Wien, see Wilhelm Parke-Bernet Galleries, 16-18 September 1969, Mrazek and Waltraud Neuwirth, Wiener lot 810. Porzellan 1718-1864, pl. 9, fig. 42 and inventory no. KE 6093. Also compare the example from For an example in the Österreichisches Museum the Thornton Wilson Collection, the Metropolitan für Angewandte Kunst, Wien, see Wilhelm Museum, New York, accession no. 50.211.10. Mrazek and Waltraud Neuwirth, Wiener C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell Porzellan 1718-1864, pl. 11, fig. 56. For a $5,000-8,000 rectangular tobacco box with silver mounts from the Hans Syz Collection, see the Metropolitan Museum, New York, accession no. 24 1995.268.291a, b. An example was sold, Vienna (du Paquier) Porcelain Two-Handled Christie's, London, 7 July 2003, lot 131. Double-Lipped Sauceboat C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell Circa 1730 $15,000-25,000 Of navette shape flanked by upright strap and shell handles, finely painted in the famille verte palette with peony roses sprays below 26 flowerheads on a seeded green border, the Vienna (du Paquier) Porcelain Armorial Two- gadrooned spout and flaring foot trimmed in iron- Handled Bowl and Cover red, the interior with a displaying phoenix before Circa 1735-40, the decoration attributed to J. a blossoming peony plant, the rim with a trellis Helchis and flowerhead border issuing four salmon- The footed bowl flanked by gilt-heightened S- ground scrolls enriched with flowers on a gilt scroll handles, the domed cover with a stepped ground, alternating with fan-pattern devices at bud finial, finely painted in colors with an accolée the spout and handles. armorial supported by a displaying double- Length 9 1/2 inches, width overall 7 1/2 inches. headed eagle, crested by a coronet and a crown, the obverse painted in puce and purpur-Malerei Provenance: with a schloss and subsidiary buildings beside a Anton Redlich Collection, Vienna. river landscape and a distant alpine vineyard, the Kende Galleries, New York, 5 April 1940. domed cover with four elaborate chinoiserie Dr. William P. Harbeson Collection, no. A.V. 14 panels painted with Chinese figures at various (collection label). pursuits, alternating with gilt trellis cartouches Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 10 December and Laub-und-Bandelwerk, edged by a gilt band 1971, lot 219. and an iron-red zig-zag line, the interior bowl with a central flowerhead, the cover with three For a tureen and cover in this pattern, see half blossoms. Wilhelm Mrazek and Waltraud Neuwirth, Wiener Height 5 3/4 inches, width overall 8 1/4 inches. Porzellan 1718-1864, pl. 12, fig. 58. For an example of the same form, see the Los Angeles Provenance: County Museum, CA. Collection of Leopold R. Gellert. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 14 May 1970, $10,000-15,000 lot 249.

A signed tureen, by Jakob Helchis, with similar architectural and landscape decoration is illustrated in Wiener Porzellan 1718-1864, no. 49, p. 57 and in the collection of Österreichischen Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Wien, accession no. KE 6954-1. For a bowl and cover of the same form, see Christie's, Paris, 15 May 2003, lot 306. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $20,000-30,000

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27 29 Vienna (du Paquier) Porcelain Partial Associated Pair of Nymphenburg White Condiment Set and Stand Porcelain Busts of Laughing Children Circa 1735-40 (Kinderbust) Finely enameled in colors with deutsche-Blumen Circa 1761, modeler Franz Anton Bustelli peony and chrysanthemum bouquets and The boy with his hair tied at the nape of his neck scattered sprays, including: two slender faceted with a bow, wearing a loose ruffled shirt and shield-shaped cruets with tall scroll handles; two jacket; his female companion with a ribbon and vasi-form vessels with tapering necks and tulip bud in her hair, wearing a frilled collar and bulbous lower section; an open shaped-oval salt; white lace corsage, each on a pierced waisted and a centerpiece formed as a figure with arms quatrefoil rocaille-molded socle base. raised, wearing a reticulated top hat and a Height 10 inches and 10 7/8 inches, respectively. collared jacket with tasseled epaulettes, the bulbous body open on both sides, the lobed Provenance: base pierced with four square fitments molded The Wetmore Estate, Newport, RI. and applied with acanthus leaf terminals; all set Parke-Bernet Galleries, 16-18 September 1969, on a shaped-oblong plateau stand, with six paw lot 807. feet. Height of centerpiece 9 1/2 inches, height of See C.H. Beck, Franz Anton Bustelli, cruets 6 1/4 inches, height of vessels 4 1/2 Nymphenburger Porzellanfiguren des Rokoko inches, height of salt 1 1/2 inches, length of das Gesamtwerk, Exhibition Catalogue, stand 17 inches. Bayerischen Nationalmuseum, Munich, 24 November 2004 - 13 March 2005, pp. 334-335, Provenance: nos. 186 and 188 (enameled examples) and nos. The Wetmore Estate, Newport, RI. 185 and 187 (white examples). An example of Parke-Bernet Galleries, 16-18 September 1967, the boy in the white is in the Bäuml Collection, lot 809. see Alfred Ziffer, Nymphenburger Porzellan, Sammlung Bäuml, Stuttgart, 1997, p. 9; and from For a teapot enameled with similar bouquets, Sheafer Collection at the Metropolitan Museum, see the example from the R. Thornton Wilson New York, accession no. 1974.356.515. An Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, enameled bust of the girl is in the Victoria and New York, accession no. 45.29.1a, b. For a Albert Museum, London, no. C.30-1933. For a similar vasi-form vessel, see Robert Schmidt, similar white pair, see Christie's, London, 3 June Early European Porcelain as Collected by Otto 2014, lot 30. Blohm, no. 64. Though some of the smaller C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell forms have come to auction over the years, $10,000-20,000 neither the central figure nor any condiment sets have been located. 30 C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell Two Ludwigsburg Porcelain Footed Salts $25,000-40,000 Circa 1760, blue interlaced C's mark Of shaped oval form supported on four scroll 28 feet, the interior and exterior bowl painted in Berlin (Wegley) White Porcelain Teacup and colors with loose bouquets of tulips and other Saucer flowers, the fluted base enriched in gilt and Circa 1751-57, blue 'W' marks, impressed adorned with a ribbon-tied blue swag. numerals and cypher Height 1 3/4 inches, width 4 inches. The shallow hemispheric cup with angular crabstock branch handle, the exterior molded Provenance: with conjoined long stem flowers in the blanc de The Wetmore Estate, Newport, RI. chine style, the saucer exterior with four similar Parke-Bernet Galleries, 16-18 September 1969, floral clusters. lot 804. Height of cup 1 3/4 inches, width 4 inches, C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell diameter of saucer 5 1/2 inches. $700-1,000

Provenance: The Wetmore Estate, Newport, RI. Parke-Bernet Galleries, 16-18 September 1969, lot 801.

In 1751, Wilhelm Caspar Wegely was granted the royal privilege to establish a porcelain manufactory in Berlin, the forerunner of Berlin (K.P.M.). At that time, Frederick II of Prussia guaranteed him an advantage by granting him exemption from duties for the import of essential materials. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $500-800

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31 32 Two Zurich Porcelain Teabowls Vincennes Porcelain Octagonal Cup and Circa 1765-70, blue crossed Z and double dot Saucer (Goblet Lizone et Soucoupe) marks, incised numerals to both Circa 1750-51, blue interlaced L's and dot marks In the Chinese taste, each painted in to both monochrome iron-red with meandering flowers, a Of lobed form with wishbone handle, exquisitely tree and a fretwork fence, the interior rim with a painted in the style of Meissen holzschnitt- quatrefoil trellis and flowerhead ribbon above a Blumen (wood-cut flowers) with sprays of flowers floral sprig. and insects, within gilt line rims. Heights 1 3/4 inches, diameter 3 inches. Height of cup 4 1/4 inches.

Provenance: The Vincennes stock lists for October 1752 Christie's, London, 16 March 1970, lot 94. describe a variety of cups and saucers described as 'Goblets 8 pans' ('eight-lobed cups'). The The Marcolini period takes its name from Count authors Svend Eriksen & Geoffrey de Bellaigue, Camillo Marcolini, Prime Minister of Saxony and Sèvres Porcelain, Vincennes and Sèvres 1740- Director of the Meissen works from 1774-1814. 1800, p. 222, no. 39, illustrate a cup and saucer of the same form and suggest that the octagonal For an example of this form, see Christie's, shape may be inspired by Chinese porcelain. London, 22 February 2011, lot 341. A cross-sectional line drawing of this form with For a similar pair of teabowls and saucers, see variant handle, dated '19 fevrÿe mil 1753' is Christie's, South Kensington, 3 December 1998, preserved at the Sèvres Manufactory archives, lot 258. inv. no. 2011.3.166, R.1 L.2 d.2. F8. See C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell Antoinette Faÿ-Hallé and Tamara Préaud, $400-600 Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Sèvres, Exhibition Catalogue, Grand Palais, Paris, 14 October 1977 - 16 January 1978, p. 126, no. 372 for a similar cup, no. 374 for similar saucer. For an extensive entry by Aileen Dawson and an example of the smallest size, troisieme grandeur, with variant handle, see the British Museum, London, no. Franks.374. T.H. Clarke, `French Influences at Chelsea', E.C.C. Transaction, Vol. 4, part 5 (1959), plates 21d and e, illustrates the close parallels between the decoration and form with those made during the raised anchor period at the Chelsea manufactory.

For a similar example at auction see, Sotheby's, London, 5 May 1970, lot 22 & 23; Also see the Elizabeth Parke Firestone Collection, sold Christie's, New York, 21 March 1991, lot 168 and another in the John Shearer Collection, Christie's, London, 25 November 2014, lot 16. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $5,000-7,000

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33 34 Gold-Mounted Vincennes Porcelain Bleu Vincennes Porcelain Fond Bleu Lapis Lapis Jug and Cover (Pot à l'Eau Tourné, Jardinière on Stand (Vase 'Hollandois', 2ème 3ème Grandeur) Grandeur) Circa 1751-53, blue interlaced L's mark, faint Circa 1754, blue interlaced L's mark enclosing incised script l, the mounts with warranty and the date letter B and painter's dagger mark for decharge for 1752-53 Etienne Evans to both the vase and stand, the The hot-water jug of pear shape with sparrow model designed by Jean-Claude Duplessis beak spout and loop handle, finely gilt and hand- In two parts, the flaring vase painted with four tooled in the rococo taste with two exotic birds panels of exotic birds in wooded landscapes before palms within a tri-lobed gilt ciselé within ciselé gilt surrounds composed of trelliswork cartouche, the surround issuing flower flowering branches, tall grasses and birds sprays and branches, the deep-cobalt blue perched on rocaille-scrolls, above a deep flange; reserve with further birds and insects, the hinged the lower bowl section with four cartouche- cover with rocaille-shell thumb-rest, the cover shaped apertures, above flowers sprays within reserved with a single panel enclosing a bird in gilt surrounds, between vertical bleu lapis panels flight, within gilt dentil rims. edged with gilt scrollwork. Height 4 7/8 inches. Height 7 7/8 inches, width 7 1/2 inches.

It is rare to find a Vincennes piece with a fully Provenance: marked mount. A rose pompadour pot à l'eau Rt. Hon. Lord Rothschild, G.M., F.R.S. tourne et sa cuvette, of the second size, in the Christie's, London, 16 March 1970, lot 41. Wallace Collection, London is similarly mounted. Functioning as either as a vase or a jardinière, The gilding found on the present pot is typical of this model was intended to grow plants indoors. the high quality of chased gold work produced at The upper section could be filled with earth and Vincennes in the early years of the factory. The has holes at the bottom which allowed water to tri-lobed shaped cartouche issuing sprays of permeate. The lower portion acts as a reservoir. flowers entwined on trellis is also typical of this This popular model was introduced in 1754 and period of production. remained in production until the 1790s. A line drawing, inscribed in the hand of Duplessis and For a bleu lapis gilt decorated pot à lait without dated 29 March 1954, survives at the Royal sparrow beak spout, see the Victorian & Albert Manufactory archive at Sèvres. According to Collection, London, no. 792-1882. For a gilt- stock records, by 1755, the form was being copper mounted bleu lapis pot à l'eau tourne, made in three sizes. Produced either singly, in 3eme grandeur and basin, see Christie's, New pairs or in garniture sets, the factory records York, 21 May 2003, lot 133. For a similarly confirm 163 examples were made in the first decorated silver-gilt mounted jug and cover of decade. For a detailed discussion and the same size, see Vincennes and Sèvres illustrations of this form, see Dame Rosalind Porcelain from a New England Collection, Savill, The Wallace Collection of Sèvres Christie's New York, 5 May 1999, lot 18. Also Porcelain, pp. 69-91. For a bleu lapis pair dated see the urne pompadour of the same sale, lot 15 1759, reference catalogue no. C218-19. Also for a similarly tooled trellis surround. Further see Svend Eriksen, Sèvres Porcelain, pp. 296- archival research recommended. 297. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $10,000-15,000 Etienne Evans (active 1752-1807) was a painter of birds, animals and flowers at Vincennes and Sèvres from 1752 to 1807.

Jean-Claude Duplessis (c. 1730 - 1783), was a Rococo master goldsmith, sculptor, ceramics modeler and designer. He is recorded as the Artistic Director at Vincennes/Sèvres from 1748 to his death in 1774 and as royal goldsmith (orfèvre du Roi) from 1758 to 1774. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $10,000-20,000

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35 38 Saint Cloud White Porcelain Socketed Cup Saint Cloud Porcelain Lobed Cup and and Saucer (Tasse Trembleuse et Soucoupe) Trembleuse Saucer Circa 1725-35, incised t / S o C / T marks Circa 1740, unmarked The blanc-de-chine cup and saucer molded with Finely enameled in the Kakiemon palette with flowering plants and birds in flight, the cup with banded hedges and rockwork issuing branches grooved loop handle, the saucer with a raised of prunus and bamboo, the cup with branch gallery to receive the cup. handle, the conforming socketed saucer with Height 2 7/8 inches, diameter 5 inches. raised lobed gallery. Diameter of saucer 5 inches. Provenance: Wilfred Sainsbury, Esq. See, Christine Lahaussois, Porcelaines de Saint- Sotheby's, London, 5 May 1970, lot 32. Cloud, pp. 143-144 for variation of this design and molding. For a strikingly similar example, see the For a similarly decorated cup and saucer, see Metropolitan Museum, New York, accession no. the Collection of Mrs. H. Dupuy, Parke-Bernet 24.214.8, .9. For a similar cup with variant Galleries, 2 April 1948, lot 260. For a pair of saucer, see the Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of similar cups and saucers see the Alexander Art, vol. 33, nos. 3 & 4, 1953-54, p. 74, Collection, Christie's, New York, 30 April 1999, accession no. 53.325. lot 285. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell This example illustrated in the exhibition $1,000-1,500 catalogue, You, Yao-Fen. "From Novelty to Necessity: The Europeanization of Coffee, Tea, 39 and Chocolate.", Detroit, 2016, p. 46; 55 (ill.); Japanese Porcelain Arita Small Teabowl 132-133 [cat. 54]. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell Late Edo period, circa 1680-1700, unmarked Painted in the Kakiemon palette with a bird in $1,000-1,500 flight over banded hedges issuing prunus and bamboo, brown line rim. 36 Diameter 2 7/8 inches. Saint Cloud Porcelain Blue and White Cup C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell and Socketed Saucer (Tasse Trembleuse et $400-600 Soucoupe) Circa 1730, blue t / S o C / T marks to the cup 40 and saucer, II / D to cup Chantilly Porcelain White Cup, Cover and The gadrooned cup and socketed saucer finely Saucer painted in blue with a foliate lambrequin border, Circa 1735-40 the cup with a grooved loop handle. Diameter of saucer 5 1/4 inches. In the Chinese taste, crisply molded and applied with cinquefoil flower sprays, the domed cover with bud finial, the scroll handle with thumb-rest Provenance: The Wetmore Estate, Newport, RI. and foliage. Parke-Bernet Galleries, 16-18 September 1969, Height of cup 3 5/8 inches, width overall 4 3/4 inches. lot 776. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $700-1,000 Provenance: Wilfred Sainsbury, Esq. Sotheby's, London, 5 May 1970, lot 30. 37 Saint Cloud Porcelain Blue and White Cup For a similar cup and cover, see The Hans Syz and Trembleuse Saucer (Tasse Trembleuse Collection at the Metropolitan Museum, New et Soucoupe) York, accession no. 1995.268.215a, b. Circa 1730-40, blue + SC/T marks C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell The gadrooned cup and socketed saucer finely $1,000-2,000 painted in blue with a foliate lambrequin border, the cup with a reeded loop handle. Diameter of saucer 4 1/2 inches.

Provenance: Sotheby's Parke Bernet, New York, early 70s, lot 179 (lot tag). C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $800-1,200

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41 44 Chantilly Porcelain Kakiemon Quatrefoil Five Marseille (Honoré Savy) Faience Plates Sugar Bowl, Cover and Stand Circa 1765, iron-red fleur-de-lis marks Circa 1730-40, iron-red hunting horn to bowl and Each finely painted with a central landscape stand vignette with figures at various sporting and Of lobed form, the conforming slightly domed domestic pursuits, including horseback riding, notched cover with a three-flower convolvulus fishing and laundry, the border with bouquets finial, finely enameled in the Japanese taste with and scattered flowers, within gilt feathered flowering branches, flower-sprays and beetles, shaped rims. the stand with a brown-line rim. Diameter 9 1/2 inches. Height of tureen 4 1/2 inches, width overall of stand 9 1/2 inches. Provenance: The Wetmore Estate, Newport, RI. Provenance: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 16-18 September 1969, Professor Alfred Patterssen Collection, lot 768. Stockholm. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 16 October $1,000-2,000 1969, lot 147.

45 For a similar example, see Christie's, London, 17 Associated Pair of Bow Porcelain Pug Dogs April 2000, lot 84. Also see Aileen Dawson, Circa 1750-53, one with incised astrological sign French Porcelain in the Ashmolean Museum, p. 34, no. 24; The Forsyth Wickes Collection in the of Mars mark Museum of Fine Arts Boston, accession no. In opposition, each model recumbent on an oblong cushion base with incised chevron 65.1941a-c and the Thornton Wilson Collection example in the Metropolitan Museum, accession borders, one with head turned as if to nip a flea, no. 50.211.119. Also see Genevieve Le Duc, the other gazing upwards, both wearing collars with a large applied flower at the back. Porcelaine tendre de Chantilly, p. 83. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell Length 3 1/4 inches. $1,500-2,500 Provenance: Anonymous Sale, Sotheby's, London, 15 June 42 1994, lot 139. Mennecy Porcelain Quatrefoil Sugar Bowl M. Mellanay Delhom Collection. and Cover Circa 1750-60, incised DV mark For a pair, see the Lady Schreiber Collection at Of lobed form, the conforming flaring cover with Victoria & Albert Museum, no. 414:147-1885; entwined vine finial, the terminals picked out in both with the planetary symbol for Mercury blue, finely painted in colors with loose bouquets incised. For a single example, see the Glaisher and scattered flowers sprays. Collection, at The Fitzwilliam Museum, Height 4 3/4 inches, width 5 3/4 inches. Cambridge, U.K. no. 3030-1928, on a cushion with tassels on front corners only. Provenance: Link here for the entry at the Fitzwilliam including Professor Alfred Patterssen Collection, extensive citations Stockholm. http://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/41569 Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 16 October For a pair with similar oblong cushions with 1969, lot 149. truncated corners see, the National Museums Scotland, nos. A.1956.1207 and A.1956.1207 A. For a similar example, see W.B. Honey, French For an enameled pair, see Christie's, New York, Porcelain, fig. 327. 21 - 22 January 1998, lot 463. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $700-1,000 $1,500-3,000

43 Pair of French Faience Trompe l'Oeil Cabbage-Form Boxes and Covers Circa 1755, attributed to Strasbourg, black script to both covers Each naturalistically modeled as a tight head of shaded green veined leaves. Diameter 5 1/2 inches.

Provenance: The Wetmore Estate, Newport, RI. Parke-Bernet Galleries, 16-18 September 1969, lot 769. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $2,000-4,000

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46 48 Pair of Bow Porcelain Kakiemon Octagonal Associated Pair of Bow Porcelain Figures of Bowls and Stands Dancers Circa 1755, unmarked Circa 1758, iron-red anchor and dagger marks to In the Japanese Arita style, each bowl exterior both, blue A to the male figure enameled and gilt with a female figure in a blue After the Meissen model by J.J. Kändler, his right kimono flanked by a banded hedge and trailing arm raised and chin back, standing before a peony, the interiors of all four pieces, with a tree-stump wearing a pale-yellow hat with puce running boy in turquoise and yellow, enticing a bow, a yellow-lined blue jacket over a belted kylin with a tethered peony, the mythic beast puce, gilt and blue striated waistcoat, floral romping beside banded hedges issuing flowering breeches and iron-red shoes; his companion in a prunus, the everted brown line rim richly small yellow hat with iron-red bow, holding out a decorated with an interrupted band of scrolling floral brocaded pink apron over a pale-yellow, foliage. green and pink striated skirt, her blue bodice Height of bowl 3 1/2 inches, diameter 6 7/8 edged in turquoise and laced in gilt, the base inches; height of stand 6 3/4 inches. applied with flowers, raised on four turquoise and gilt enriched rocaille-molded scroll feet, his base Provenance: further enriched in puce and cobalt blue. Sotheby's, London, 24 October 1972. Height 7 3/4 inches and 8 inches, respectively. With Robert Williams, London (1972). Provenance: See Anton Gabszewicz, Bow Porcelain: The Mrs. N. Warre Collection. Collection Formed by Geoffrey Freeman, pl. 58, Sotheby's, London 28 October 1969, lot 1. p. 51 for a similar bowl. Also see a bowl and stand, sold by Christie's, London, 13 April 1970, For a similar pair, see Christie's, 25 November lot 110. For a similar stand in this pattern, see 1991, lot 109. Also see the English Ceramics Bonham's, London, 6 June 2007, lot 224; for a Circle, Exhibition Catalogue, 1948, pl. 42, nos. bowl, see Bonham's, London, 2 December 2009, 176 and 177; and William King, English lot 49. Porcelain Figures of the 18th Century, fig. 9. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $5,000-8,000 $1,500-3,000

47 49 Bow Porcelain Octagonal Kakiemon Sugar Chelsea Porcelain Pagoda Figure of Pu-Thai Box and Cover Ho-Shang Circa 1755 Circa 1745-49, incised triangle period The octagonal box with lightly domed cover and Derived from the Chinese Dehua or blanc-de- apple branch finial, enameled with panels of chine model, the rotund seated Buddhist sage, scrolling Ruyi tendrils gilt with a central mons resting his right hand on his raised knee, his left and reserved on an iron-red ground, alternating hand extended proffering perhaps a large pearl with single poppies and Buddhist emblems, or a piece of fruit, his mouth slightly agape within brown line rims. revealing a toothy grin, his earlobes extending to Height 4 1/4 inches, diameter 4 1/2 inches. his collar. Height 3 1/2 inches. Provenance: Mr. & Mrs. David Hely-Hutchinson. Provenance: Sotheby's, London, 28 October 1969, lot 110. Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 16 May With Fairhead, Ltd. (paper label - inscribed 1962, lot 58. Delholm). The Selwyn Parkinson Collection. Sotheby's, London, 11 October 1966, lot 227. As the Bow factory papers include several Property from a Distinguished Australian references to 'Japan octagon' wares, it is likely Collection. the Bow artisans were directly inspired by a 17th Christie's, London 7 June 1994, lot 21. century Japanese Arita original. Closely related M. Mellanay Delhom Collection, Charlotte, NC. wares were also produced at Meissen circa 1730-35. Similarly decorated Meissen wares are recorded in the Japanese Palace Collection of Literature: Augustus the Strong; reference Claus Boltz, Margaret Legge, Flowers and Fables, A Survey 'Japanisches Palais-Inventar 1770 und of Chelsea Porcelain, 1745-1769, p. 25, no. 3. Turmzimmer-Inventar 1769', Keramos 153 (July 1996), p. 57. inv. nos. 343 and 344. Chelsea and Exhibited: Chantilly examples are also known. For a Bow Melbourne, Australia, Flowers and Fables, example of this form, see the Victoria & Albert Exhibition 1984-85, no. 1 (paper label). Museum, no. C.990&A-1924. For a Bow octagonal bowl and a stand in this pattern, see For a similar example from the Katz Collection, Christie's, London, 6 December 2004, lot 279. see The Museum Fine Arts Boston, accession C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell no. 1988-780. For another example, see John $2,000-3,000 Austin, Chelsea Porcelain at Williamsburg, fig 105, pp 112-113. For one from The Dr. Peter Bradshaw Collection, see Bonham's, London, 24 January 2007, lot 1. Also see Christie's, London, 6 December 2004, lot 300 C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $4,000-6,000 Sale Date - 06/24/2021 Page 14

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50 52 Chelsea Porcelain Kakiemon Saucer Dish Chelsea White Porcelain Goat and Bee Milk Circa 1752, iron-red anchor mark Jug The interior painted in the Japanese taste with Circa 1745-49, incised triangle mark to the 'The Flying Fox and Rooting Squirrel' pattern, underside, designed by Nicholas Sprimont depicting an airborne fox bounding above a tree Of pear-shape, the base of the jug slip-cast with squirrel nibbling a grape from a vine growing two opposing recumbent goats resting on an along hedges supported by bamboo, the petal irregular mound base, beneath the curved spout, rim edged in brown. a large bee rests on a relief-molded tall Diameter 8 1/4 inches. blossoming tea plant, the applied handle naturalistically modeled as a foliate oak branch. Provenance: Height 4 1/4 inches, width overall 3 1/4 inches. The Wetmore Estate, Newport, RI. Parke-Bernet Galleries, 16-18 September 1969, Nicholas Sprimont was born in Liege, a French- lot 697. speaking region of Flanders and was active in London between 1716-1771. This 17th century Japanese Arita pattern was This form is thought to be inspired by a silver also produced at Meissen and Chantilly in the form that has yet to be located. For an incised mid-1730 and 1740s and later at both Bow and triangle marked white example see the British Chelsea. A Chelsea example was sold by Museum, London, no. 1888, 0307, II.16. Also Phillips, London 16 December 1998, lot 212. see Christie's, London, 2 November 1998, lot 75; C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell 18 November 1999, lot 26; and 11 October 2002, $1,000-2,000 lot 30. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $6,000-9,000 51 Chelsea Porcelain Documentary 'Goat and Bee' Milk Jug 53 Circa 1745-49, incised triangle and script English Porcelain 'Goat and Bee' Small Jug Chelsea mark, designed by Nicholas Sprimont Late 19th Century, unmarked, attributed to Of pear-shape enameled in colors, the base of Coalport the jug slip-cast with two opposing recumbent Derived from the Chelsea model, with opposing goats resting on an irregular mound base, one recumbent goats at the base, beneath the with fur markings in brown, the other spotted in curved spout, a large bee rests on flowering grey, beneath the curved spout a large yellow stems, the applied handle naturalistically winged black bee rests on a relief-molded spray modeled as an oak branch with leafy terminals. of a tall blossoming tea plant, the applied handle Height 4 3/4 inches. naturalistically modeled as a foliate oak branch. Height 4 3/16 inches. For a similar example attributed to Coalport, see Woolley and Wallace, Salisbury, U.K., 21 April Provenance: 2015, lot 392. Mrs. Radford, Lested Lodge, Well Walk, C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell Hampstead. $200-300 Sotheby's, London, 3 November 1943, lot 86. D.M. & P. Manheim, New York City, April 1949.

Literature: Antiques, May 1949, Volume LV, No. 5, p. 325.

Nicholas Sprimont was born in Liege, a French- speaking region of Flanders. He was active in London between 1716-1771.

While all recorded polychrome examples seem to be marked with the incised triangle and sometimes a date, the present jug appears to be the only one extant with both an incised triangle and Chelsea in script.

For a similarly marked documentary white example from the Katz Collection, see the Museum Fine Arts Boston, accession no. 1988.700. www.mfa.org/collections/object/goat- and-bee-cream-jug-54402. Another at the British Museum, London, no. 1887,0307,II.16. For a similarly enameled example, see the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, accession no. 2875- 1901. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $5,000-8,000

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54 55 St. James's (Charles Gouyn) Porcelain Chelsea Porcelain 'Hans Sloane' Botanical Taperstick Figure of a Putto Emblematic of Plate Autumn Circa 1757, iron-red anchor mark Circa 1750, unmarked Boldly painted with a stem of blue budding and The scantily clad figure modeled seated wearing blossoming cinquefoil flowers, the petals spotted a yellow drape, pointing with his right hand to a towards the turquoise stamen and with broad cluster of grapes held in his left, before a long heart-shaped leaves, the border with two brightly stemmed narcissus issuing blossoms including colored butterflies in flight, within shaped brown the foliate nozzle supported on the putto's head, line rims. the stump and curved chamfered base painted Diameter 9 inches. with flower sprays and scattered sprigs. Height 4 1/2 inches. Provenance: Sir James Williams-Drummond, Bt., of Provenance: Hawthornden, Midlothian. Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 5 October Sotheby's, London, 23 February 1971, lot 11. 1971, lot 23. Property from a Distinguished Australian Literature: Collection. Sotheby's Year in Review, 1970-71, p. 392. Christie's, London 7 June 1994, lot 21. M. Mellanay Delhom Collection, Charlotte, NC. Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1713) was the physician to Queen Anne, a botanist, an adventurer and a collector of rare plants. The earliest documented Exhibited: reference to the decorative term 'Hans Sloane' in Melbourne, Australia, Flowers and Fables, conjunction with Chelsea porcelain is from an Exhibition, 1984-55, no. 195. advertisement in Faulkner's Dublin Journal of July 1-4, 1758, announcing `... table plates, soup See Elizabeth Adams, Chelsea Porcelain, p. 44, plates and desart plates enamelled from Sir pl. 30 for a similar pair together with another Hans Sloan's plants.' emblematic of Winter from the City Museum and Art Gallery Stoke-on Trent. Many of the botanical specimen on Chelsea C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell wares can be traced to quasi-faithful adaptations $4,000-6,000 of the illustrations in Philip Miller's Gardener's Dictionary of 1754 and Figures of the most Beautiful, Useful and Uncommon Plants described in the Gardener's Dictionary depicting specimens from the Chelsea Physic Garden, published in 1760, and from Plantae Selectae Quarum Imagines, after Georg Dionysius Ehret, published in 1750-1753. Even the insects depicted often represent species instrumental in fertilizing the plant. A 333-volume set containing the 800-dried species collection by Sir Hans Sloane are held in the Botanical department of the Natural History Museum, South Kensington.

Comparison examples can be found in Elizabeth Adams, Chelsea Porcelain, cl. pl. XII and p. 111, pl. 92; John Austin, Chelsea Porcelain at Williamsburg, pp. 99 and 93, nos. 78-82; Yvonne Hackenbroch, Chelsea and Other English Porcelain, Pottery and Enamel in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, pl. 18, fig. 49. For four botanical plates offered as one lot, see Christie's, New York, 21 - 22 October 2010, lot 37. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $4,000-6,000

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56 59 Chelsea Porcelain 'Hans Sloane' Botanical Pair of Chelsea Porcelain Mazarine-Blue Plate Ground Pot-Pourri Vases and Covers Circa 1758-60, brown anchor mark Circa 1760, gold anchor mark to one, after a Boldly painted with a cluster of three purple designed by Jean-Claude Duplessis père, the plums and two ripening pears growing from leafy form 'pot pourri à jour' originally made by the stems, a small wild strawberry on the rim Vincennes manufactory between 1752-1753. together with a ladybug, a moth and a damselfly, Each of quatrelobed form supported on four within shaped brown line rims. scroll feet, the pierced spiral fluted domed cover Diameter 9 inches. surmounted by a gather of white lilies, the body finely painted with alternate panels of brightly Provenance: colored exotic birds, and bouquets of garden Sir James Williams-Drummond, Bt., of flowers, framed with gilt acanthus leaves and Hawthornden, Midlothian. tooled gilt flowers, beneath a gilt ribbon-entwined Sotheby's, London, 23 February 1971, lot 19. pierced neck. Height 11 3/4 inches. See the note to the preceding lot. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell Provenance: $3,000-5,000 Christie's, New York, 10 November 1993, lot 33. Mrs. M. Clark, Fairacre, Camden Park Road, Chislehurst, Kent and thence by descent to her 57 daughter, Gay. Chelsea Porcelain Spiral Gadrooned Bowl With Robert Williams, Eastbourne, UK, 1994. and Stand

Circa 1752-56, iron-red anchor marks Exhibition Literature: Of 'Hans Sloane type', finely enameled in colors Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC, 'Portals to the with loose bouquets and flower sprays, the Past: British Ceramics 1675-1825, presented by interior of the stand with a large leaf and two the Delhom Service League'. ladybugs, the lower body molded and painted as acanthus, within iron-red line rims. This important pair of gold anchor vases forms Diameter of bowl 5 5/8 inches, diameter of stand part of a range marketed by Nicholas Sprimont, 8 1/8 inches. manager and proprietor of the Chelsea manufactory, in the Spring of 1759. For a Provenance: detailed discussion, see J.V.G. Mallet, ECC Hon. Graham Kinnaird. Transactions, 'Chelsea Gold Anchor Vase', Vol. Sotheby's, London, 17 March 1970, lot 177. 17, pt.1, p.126. Observe an undecorated biscuit

version of this vase form is set on the table Literature: beside Sprimont in a group portrait with his wife 'Apollo Magazine', June 1966. Ann and sister-in-law Susanna Protin, illustrated

by Elizabeth Adams, Chelsea Porcelain, 2001, For a similarly molded cup and saucer, formerly frontispiece, and offered for sale in the present in the Bellamy Gardner Collection, see William auction as lot 58. King, Chelsea Porcelain, pl. 20 fig. 2. For similar teabowls and saucers, see Sotheby's, London, For further discussion on these vases, see Errol 11 October 1966, lot 259. Manners, 'Some Continental influences on C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell English porcelain'. E.C.C. Transaction, Vol. 19, $8,000-12,000 Part. 3.

58 For a pair of vases of this form from The English School Huntington Art Collections, San Marino, CA, see Portrait Nicholas Sprimont and His Family; F. Severne Mackenna, Chelsea Porcelain, The c.1760 Gold Anchor Wares, pl. 35, no. 66; one of these Oil on canvas illustrated by J.V.G. Mallet, op. cit., p.129. Seated at the table is Nicholas Sprimont (circa Another pair, historically split, has been identified 1716-1771), co-founder and manager of the as sold in the Hanns and Elizabeth Weinberg Chelsea porcelain factory. His wife, Ann, behind Collection, Sotheby's, New York, 11 November him, while his sister-in-law, Susanna Protin, 2006, lot 733 and Bonham's, London, 9 presents a completed vase from the factory for September 2009, lot 45. his inspection. Sprimont is surrounded by five additional Chelsea vases in varying degrees of For a similar pair formerly in the Joan Rivers completion. See lots 59, 60, 61, and 62. Collection, see the exhibited by Roderick Jellicoe, Kensington, The Heart of Ceramics, Provenance: London, 27 June to 1st July, 2017, no. 5. For a M. Mellanay Delhom Collection, Charlotte, NC. single example painted after Boucher, see C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell Bonham's, London 9 September, 2009, lot 45; $8,000-12,000 the companion vase was sold as part of the Collection formed by Hanns and Elizabeth Weinberg and the Antique Company, Sotheby's, New York, 11 November 2006, lot 733. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $7,000-9,000

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60 61 Chelsea Porcelain Mazarin-Blue Ground Vase Chelsea Porcelain Two-Handled Pea-Green Circa 1760-65 unmarked Ground Vase Of squared tapering baluster form, each side Circa 1760, gold anchor mark panel painted with a vignette of two exotic birds In the Rococo taste, of gadrooned bottle form, either standing on rockwork or perched on a tree the slender flaring neck flanked by elaborate branch, the mottled mazarine-blue reserves scroll handles, the body reserved with elongated enriched with gilt scrolls, the smaller panels gilt panels painted in polychrome with exotic birds with bouquets and flower sprays, the rim with amongst tree branches, the scalloped neck with stiff-leaf tips. corresponding sprays of foliage, within gilt Height 11 inches. surrounds, on a low splayed foot. Height 12 inches. Provenance: With Roderick Jellicoe Antiques, London (label). Provenance: With E & H Manners Antiques, London, 1994 Exhibition Literature: Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC, 'Portals to the Exhibition Literature: Past: British Ceramics 1675-1825, presented by Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC, 'Portals to the the Delhom Service League'. Past: British Ceramics 1675-1825, presented by the Delhom Service League'. For a pair of vases of this form reference, J.V.G. Mallet, 'Chelsea Gold Anchor Vases, I: The Literature: Forms', English Ceramic Circle Transactions, J.V.G. Mallet, 'A Painting of Nicholas Sprimont, Vol. 17, Part 1, p. 126. Also see, J.V.G. Mallet, 'A His Family and His Chelsea Vases' Cahier de Painting of Nicholas Sprimont, His Family and Mariemont, Hommage a Mirelle Jottrand, p. 85, His Chelsea Vases', Les Cahiers de Mariemont, fig. 6. Hommage a Mireille Jottrand, Vol. 24/24, 1993/1994, p. 83, figs. 3b and 5. The portrait of Observe that the present vase is the closest Nicholas Sprimont with his wife and sister-in-law vase form known corresponding to the shape (lot 58), features this form decorated in illustrated in the Sprimont portrait on the lower underglaze blue, but in an unpainted state at the right. Based on the highly rare ground color and far right set on the table, the left hand of his wife form, it is also likely one of the pair referenced in resting on the rim. See lot 58. the Chelsea Factory auction of 1761 as: "35 Two fine high scollopped bottles, of the pea-green For examples of this rare form and decoration, ground, enamelled with birds and gilt ornament" see Two Ducal Collections, Woburn Abbey, Bedford, UK, Christie's, 20 September 2004, lot For more details, see the notes to the preceding 1165 (ex Bourdon House, the residence of the lots and lot 58 for the oil on canvas portrait. Duke of Westminster, Mayfair London, illustrated C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell on the mantelpiece in 'Country Life', 22 October $5,000-7,000 1921); a monochrome puce pair, sold, Bonham's, London, 18 May 2016, lot 318; and a polychrome pair with Orientalist figures and exotic birds, Christie's, London, 18 May 1992, lot 61. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $2,500-3,500

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62 64 Pair of Chelsea Porcelain Mazarine-Blue Chelsea Porcelain Mazarine-Blue Ground Ground Fruit and Flower Encrusted Two- Paneled Oval Two-Handled Stand from the Handled Vases 'Mecklenburg-Strelitz Service' Circa 1760, unmarked Circa 1763, gold anchor mark Each of lobed baluster form, the banded neck Shaped oval with shell form handles, the center flanked by gilt rocaille-molded scroll handles finely painted in colors with two exotic birds in a applied with fruit, mixed berries and flowers, the landscape vignette before a distant harbor, the sides richly gilt and hand-tooled with either rocaille-cartouche molded border with mazarine- vignettes after Watteau of musical 18th century blue reserved panels enriched with finely tooled companions or with exotic birds perched among gilt butterflies and other insects, alternating with flowering and fruiting trees, the lobed neck with floral swags, within a gilt feuille-de-choux and gilt scale pattern, trellis and diaper, the foot molded line rim. and enriched with gilt acanthus. Width 11 inches. Height 16 3/4 inches. Provenance: With E. & H. Manners Antiques, London. Provenance: M. Mellanay Delhom Collection, Charlotte, NC. Phillips, London, 8 March 1995, lot 236. Anonymous sale, Neales, Nottingham, 23 May This service was commissioned in 1762 by 1996, lot 460 (cover illustration) George III and Queen Charlotte as a gift for the With Klaber & Klaber Antiques, London. Queen's brother, Duke Adolphus Frederick IV of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. A large portion of the Exhibition Literature: service remained at Strelitz until the 1920s when Grosvenor House Fair, 1995. it was purchased by Joseph Duveen. On the Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC, 'Portals to the occasion of the Queen's birthday in 1948, a Past: British Ceramics 1675-1825, presented by subsequent owner, Mr. James Oakes, returned the Delhom Service League'. much of the service to the Royal Collection and it is now displayed at Buckingham Palace. The present pair of vases are two of the five known surviving examples. The deep cobalt-blue See the Victoria & Albert Museum catalogue, unglazed color 'mazarine blue' first appeared at Rococo, fig. O.39. A dish from the Katz the Chelsea manufactory in 1756, and was likely collection, now held at the Museum of Fine Art in a response to the bleu lapis ground introduced at Boston, is illustrated by Elizabeth Adams, Vincennes in 1751. For a pea-green example of Chelsea Porcelain, first edition, pl. 126. Another this form, see J.V.G. Mallet, 'A Painting of in the British Museum is shown in the second Nicholas Sprimont, His Family and His Chelsea edition, fig. 11.16 and for a dish in the National Vases', Les Cahiers de Mariemont, Hommage a Gallery of Victoria, see the catalogue, Flowers Mireille Jottrand, Vol. 24/24, 1993/1994, p. 85, and Fables, fig. 180. fig. 7. Also observe the undecorated biscuit form C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell illustrated in the lower right corner of the $1,000-2,000 Sprimont portrait, offered in the current sale as lot 58. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $10,000-15,000

63 Chelsea Porcelain Mazarine-Blue Ground Paneled Plate of Mecklenburg-Strelitz Type Circa 1763-65, gold anchor mark The center finely painted in colors with an exotic bird strutting in a landscape vignette before a distant village, among scattered insects, the rocaille-cartouche molded border with mazarine- blue reserved panels enriched with finely tooled gilt butterflies, alternating with floral swags, within a gilt feuille-de-choux and gilt line rim. Diameter 8 3/4 inches.

Provenance: M. Mellanay Delhom Collection. With E. & H. Manners Antiques, London.

Following on the success of the service given in 1762 by George III and Queen Charlotte to the Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, a duplicate serving wares subsequently made at Chelsea, probably in 1764. To distinguish the duplicate wares, a variant shaped rim was employed, with concave instead of convex lobes to the blue border panels. For plates of this type, see the Trelissick House sale, Bonham's, 23 & 24 July 2013, lot 87-89. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $400-600 Sale Date - 06/24/2021 Page 19

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65 67 Pair of Chelsea Porcelain Mazarine-Blue Pair of Longton Hall Porcelain 'Snowman' Ground and White Candlesticks, Intended for Taperstick Models of Birds the 'Mecklenburg-Strelitz Service' Circa 1750, unmarked Circa 1763, unmarked In opposition, each long neck crested bird After a Rococo silver-form, the vari-baluster stem modeled pinning a snake or branch beneath its and flaring foot molded with rocaille-scroll powerful claws, one with raised wing, the other cartouches reserved by a mazarine blue ground, folded, both before a grapevine stump on a raised on three trefoil-shell feet, the nozzles with rockwork base. foliate brass inserts. Height 6 1/4 inches, length 7 1/2 inches. Height 12 inches. Provenance: Provenance: Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 22 With Robert Williams, Eastbourne (1994). February 1971, lot 73. M. Mellanay Delhom Collection, Charlotte, NC. (labels to both). No other examples of these models are currently extant. For a pair of `Snowman' turkey cocks, The present pair of candlesticks was originally see Bernard Watney, Longton Hall Porcelain, pl. commissioned by King George III and Queen 3a. A third turkey cock can be found in the Charlotte, to be presented to her brother, Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; The Ruby Adolphus Frederick IV, Duke of Mecklenburg- Ashdown Collection of Decorative Art, accession Strelitz in 1764. However, due to the large firing no. 2009-234. For a pair of biscuit crested flaws, they were considered unsuitable for royal pheasants, see the Rous Lench Collection, sold, presentation and the decoration was never Christie's, London, 29 May 1990, lot 422. completed. For examples of other forms from Compare three examples in the Katz Collection this service, now at Buckingham Palace, see in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, accession The Royal Collection Trust. no. 1988.989; 1988.987; 1988.997. For a discussion on these model and other, see Also see Bernard Rackham, The Schreiber Bernard Watney, 'Snowman figures from Collection: Catalogue of English Porcelain, for a Longton Hall, Staffordshire', Antiques, August pair of Mecklenburg-Strelitz scroll branches for 1974. For a Longton Hall model of a heron from candelabra, p. 26 no. 254 and for an amusing the Rous Lench Collection, see Christie's, period excerpt from a Horace Walpole letter London, 2 November 1998, lot 77. including a mention of candlesticks from this C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell celebrated service. $8,000-12,000 C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $4,000-6,000 68 Longton Hall Porcelain Commedia dell'Arte 66 Figure of a Harlequin Pair of Derby (Andrew Planche) Porcelain Circa 1753, unmarked 'Dry-Edge' Models of Sheep and Goats Modeled striding wearing a mask, his right hand Circa 1750-52, unmarked raised to the brim of his hat, supported by a tree- One modeled as a recumbent goat suckling a stump applied with foliage, on a shaped mound kid; the other as an ewe nestling a lamb, on base. rockwork mound bases. Height 4 7/8 inches. Lengths 4 3/4 and 3 1/2 inches, respectively. For a strikingly similar example from the Provenance: Gardiner Collection see the Gardiner Museum, Sotheby's, London, 13 October 1970, lot 213. Toronto, object no.: G83.1.896. Also see, With Winifred Williams, Antiques, London, 1970. Sotheby's, London 21 April 1980, lot 271. For a polychrome example from the Rous Lench For a similar ewe and lamb group from the Collection, see Christie's, London, 29 May 1990, Stratham Collection see, the Fitzwilliam lot 419. Also, reference, Bernard Watney, Museum, Cambridge, U.K., object no. C.34- Longton Hall Porcelain, pl. 40B. 1992. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell http://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/82726 $4,000-6,000 For a Staffordshire saltglazed stoneware example, see the Glaisher Collection, object no. C.806-1928, pl. 56D.

For a related painted pair from the Schreiber Collection, see the Victoria & Albert Museum, no. 414:207/A and B-1885 and MacAlister, William Duesbury's London Account Book, pl. Iic and p.x.x. For a related white pair in the N.C. Ashton Collection, see Peter Bradshaw, Derby Porcelain Figures 1750-1848, London, 1990, pp. 34-35, fig. B6. Also see John Twitchett, Derby Porcelain, London, 1980, plate 5. For a related white pair, see Christie's, New York, 22 & 23 October 2003, lot 297. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $8,000-12,000

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69 70 English Porcelain Figure of a Polish Longton Hall Porcelain Commedia dell'Arte Nobleman Figure of a Dancing Harlequin Circa 1752, unmarked, possibly Longton Hall Circa 1752, unmarked Of 'Snowman' type, loosely based on the Derived from the Meissen model by Peter Meissen model by Peter Reinicke, the Reinicke, made for Johann Adolph II, Duke of mustached figure modeled standing, one hand Weissenfels, modeled dancing and gesturing on hip, the other outstretched above a sabre, with right hand raised, a slapstick in his left hand wearing a fur-lined green hat, his long Ottoman tucked beneath a yellow-lined puce cloak, style white coat edged in gilt and painted in iron- wearing a high conical black hat, white frill, red with crescents, peacock-eye's, crow's feet flowered gilt enriched tunic, and iron-red and star-like patterns, belted at the waist with a breeches with florets at the knee, leaning against turquoise sash, and revealing a yellow tunic and a brightly colored tree-stump support, the circular green trousers, above yellow boots with red mound base painted with flowers matching those heels, the distinctive canted square base applied on his jacket, the concave base unglazed. with two large flat yellow centered blue flowers Height 4 3/4 inches. growing from a curved stem with leaves and painted with a pink rose spray. Provenance: Height 5 3/4 inches. A.E. Hutton Collection. Sotheby's, London, 31 March 1944, lot 108. Provenance: James A. MacHarg, Esq. Mr. & Mrs. James Stewart, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Sotheby's, London, 14 May 1974. Canada. Sotheby's, London, 13 November 1973, lot 29. No other example of this model could be found. For two Meissen examples by P. Reinicki and an Reference Errol & Henrietta Manners exhibition enameled saltglazed stoneware model in a catalogue, 'Roy Hogarth Collection of Rare similar attitude, see the Gardiner Museum, English Figures', 27 February 2018, p. 20 for a Toronto, object nos. G83.1.935, G83.1.923, similarly inspired London-decorated example. G83.1.963. Also see the Glaisher collection for a Here noting the traditional costume for Polish white saltglazed stoneware example at the noblemen of the period included a preference for Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK, object no. a split sleeve of this design. For a Meissen C.809-1928, example, circa 1750, see Yvonne Adams, http://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76132 Meissen Figures, 2004, p. 59, no. 140. . C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell Based on a Meissen model by J.J. Kändler of $5,000-7,000 circa 1745 in turn after an engraving by M. de Ferriol, published, Recueil de cent estampes 71 représentant differentes nations du Levants, Longton Hall Porcelain Mythological Figure Paris, 1714. See Bernard Watney, E.C.C. of Ceres Transactions, Vol. 8, Part, 2, pl. 181(b). For an example of the related Meissen model, see Circa 1753-55, unmarked Emblematic of Summer, the goddess of Bonham's, London, 17 June 2015, lot 146. Also see Sarah Andres-Acevedo et. al., The Prince agriculture modeled standing holding a sheaves Amyn Aga Khan Collection of Early Meissen of wheat cradled in her right arm and further sheaf form a wreath adorning her hair, her Porcelain, for a Meissen figure in this stance and garb, his hat doffed and in his left hand, cat. no. décolleté classic robe painted with scattered 9, p. 78. For a Chaffers Liverpool example flower sprigs, at her knee an infant Cupid clings to the folds and offers a posy, the rocaille- 'modelled on a Longton Hall example' in turn based on the Meissen prototype, see Mary Wise molded mound base enriched in pink and green. & Grosvenor Antiques, no. 92150/198487. Height 6 7/8 inches.

C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $12,000-18,000 This model is based on a Meissen prototype. For two 'snowman' examples, see the Dingwall gift at the Victoria & Albert Museum, object nos. C.213- 1915 and C.302-1915. For a similar example, see the Leake Collection, sold Bonham's, London, 12 March 2008. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $1,000-1,500

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72 75 Longton Hall Porcelain Silver-Shaped Longton Hall Porcelain Strawberry-Leaf Sauceboat Molded Plate Circa 1755, unmarked Circa 1755-57, unmarked The form derived from a Rococo silver prototype, The center painted in colors with a vignette of the body with upswept spout and scroll handle, three exotic birds perched and strutting in a on a spreading rocaille-scroll edged foot, the landscape, the border crisply molded with sides painted in the Kakiemon palette with exotic strawberry leaves and fruiting vine, the veins and birds among flowering plants. vines in puce, the stems and leaves in shaded Height 4 1/4 inches, width 6 1/2 inches. yellow and green. Diameter 9 inches. Provenance: Charles W. Dyson Perrins Collection. For a similar example, see Christie's, London, 18 November 1999, lot 30; and for two offered in the Literature: same lot, see Christie's, New York, 21 - 22 Bernard Watney, Longton Hall Porcelain, fig. 24. January 1998, lot 482. Another example is preserved at the Reading C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell Museum. $500-1,000 C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $3,000-5,000 76 Longton Hall Porcelain Strawberry-Leaf 73 Molded Bowl and Stand Longton Hall Porcelain Strawberry-Leaf Circa 1756, unmarked Molded Jug Each molded in relief with strawberry leaves and Circa 1755, unmarked meandering purple and yellow pansies, the puce Of quatrefoil baluster form, the strawberry leaf vine continuing around the rim edge, painted in molded spout with puce veins and trailing vine 'Trembly Rose' style with bouquets of flowers and an applied twisted vine handle, one side and scattered sprigs, the leaf shaped stand with molded and enriched in puce and yellow with a fanciful winged insect, the applied vine handle three pink carnations and a bud growing from with molded leaf terminal. curved green stems, the obverse molded with Height of the bowl 2 7/8 inches; length of the auricula and further foliage, the front finely stand 9 1/4 inches. painted with a bouquet of roses and other flowers. Provenance: Height 8 inches. Colonel J.H.H. Robinson Collection. Christie's, London, 22 February 1971, lot 63. Provenance: A. Evans, Esq. Collection. See Carl. C. Dauterman, The Wrightsman Christie's, London, 19 April 1971, lot 108. Collection, Vol. 4 p. 361, no. 165B. A similar bowl and stand sold, Christie's, London, 16 For a similar example see, Bernard Watney, November 1970, lot 249. Another was sold Longton Hall Porcelain, pl. 49B. Also see the Sotheby's, New York, 15 April 1996, lot 120. A Hurst Collection at the Victoria & Albert Museum, similar bowl is illustrated in English Pottery and Museum, no. C.263-1940; and another from the Porcelain, the English Ceramic Circle Katz Collection at the Museum Fine Arts Boston, Commemorative Exhibition Catalogue, 1948, pl. accession no. 1988.901. For an example from 72, no. 336. An example was sold in the Mildred the Mildred Hilson Collection, see Christie's, New Hilson Collection, Christie's, New York 14 York, 14 October 1995, lot 220. October 1995, lot 225. A nearly identical stand C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell from the Leake's Collection was sold Bonham's, $3,000-5,000 London, 12 May 2008, lot 64 and notes that "an identical dish was exhibited by Albert Amor, Autumn Exhibition 2003, catalogue no. 24." For a 74 similar bowl, from the collection of Mrs. Paul Longton Hall Porcelain Lobed Jug Mellon, see Sotheby's, New York, 21-23 Circa 1755, unmarked November 2014, lot 465. Of quatrefoil baluster form, applied with a twisted C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell vine handle, finely painted in colors with a $5,000-7,000 vignette of exotic birds perched among branches and in flight, the sides with flower sprays, beneath a gilt line rim. Height 7 7/8 inches.

Provenance:

Collection of Lady Corah. Sotheby's, London, 20 July 1971, lot 24.

A jug of this form with bird decoration is illustrated by Geoffrey Godden, British Porcelain, An Illustrated Guide, p. 283, pl. 340. Also see the Margaret Davison Block Collection, sold Sotheby's, New York, 15 April 1996, lot 133. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $2,000-4,000

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77 80 Two Longton Hall Porcelain Leaf-Molded Longton Hall Porcelain Figure of a Female Small Bowls Sportswoman Circa 1755, unmarked Circa 1755, unmarked Oval with serrated rims, each exterior molded as Modeled standing wearing a fashionable hunting overlapping strawberry leaves, the veins in puce, habit including a yellow cap, iron-red hunting the edges in yellow and green, the interior jacket with puce collars and cuffs, yellow painted with botanical specimen of pink waistcoat with black buttons and a yellow and carnations growing from slender curved stalks puce striped skirt, displaying a gamebird in her alternating with insects. outstretched left hand, her right hand at her Height of each 3 1/4 inches, width 5 3/4 inches. waist, a begging hound at her side, the high rocaille-molded scroll base enriched in puce. Provenance: Height 7 inches. Mrs. Edward F. Hutton Collection. Sotheby's Parke-Bernet, 7 June 1972, lot 264. Provenance: Sotheby's, London, 29 June 1971, lot 100. For a similar example see Bernard Watney, Longton Hall Porcelain, p.33. Also see Wm. For a similar example see, Albert Amor Ltd., The Bemrose, Longton Hall Porcelain, pl. xxvii, no. 4. Grosvenor House Art and Antiques Fair For an example from the Hilson Collection, see Exhibition Catalogue, 2005, no. 53. A similar Christie's, New York, 14 October 1995, lot 223. huntress and companion were sold at Sotheby's, C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell London, 7 May 1968, lot 179; and at Christie's, $2,000-3,000 London on 9 June 1980, lot 248; a single figure of a huntress was sold Sotheby's, London, 5 October 1976, lot 134; and another at Sotheby's, 78 London, 15 October 1996, lot 103. Also see Two Longton Hall Porcelain Leaf-Shaped Bonham's, London, 1 May 2013, lot 106. Dishes C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell Circa 1756, unmarked $1,200-1,800 Each of lobed circular form with applied vine handle, the interior finely painted with a tight rose bouquet among scattered sprigs and flowers, 81 within puce line rims. Pair of Longton Hall Porcelain Taperstick Width overall 9 1/2 inches. Figures of an Abbott and Abbess Circa 1755-57, unmarked Provenance: Both modeled holding an open book, the seated With James A. Lewis & Sons, New York (labels). nun wearing a flowing purple habit and iron-red Sotheby's Parke-Bernet, New York, ---, 1974, lot trimmed scapular; the companion figure with 16. similarly enameled vestments with ermine cuffs, reading a passage titled, 'Absolution', each For another example, see S.J. Hales mound base with a scrolling branch formerly Auctioneers, Bovey Tracey, UK, 17 September issuing a candle-nozzle. Height 5 1/2 inches. 2003, lot 19. For a lot with five Longton Hall leaf- shaped dishes, including three of the present Provenance: form, see the Kinross auction including property Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 19 April removed from the London residence of Mrs. 1971, lot 210. Winston Spenser Churchill, sold by Christie's, M. Mellanay Delhom Collection, Charlotte, NC. London, 30 March 2011, lot 32 (note the other two leaf-shaped dishes in this lot were the same The female figure also exists in Bow porcelain form lot 90 in the present sale.) and is based on a Meissen prototype. For a C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell figural example of the abbess, see the Glaisher $2,000-4,000 Collection at The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, U.K. no. C.3051-1928. Her open book inscribed 'Absolution'. 79 http://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/38094 Longton Hall Porcelain Teabowl and Saucer C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell Circa 1755 $1,000-2,000 Of demilune form, finely painted by the so-called 'Trembly Rose' painter with rose bouquets and sprays, on a conforming saucer, reddish-brown line rims. Height of teabowl 1 1/2 inches, diameter 2 3/4 inches; diameter of saucer 2 3/4 inches.

Provenance: Parke-Bernet, New York, between 1972-73, lot 52, (label). With Winifred Williams Antiques, Sussex (label).

For a similar example, see Bernard Watney, Longton Hall Porcelain, pl. 58B. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $1,000-1,500

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82 84 Two Longton Hall Porcelain Leaf-Shaped Longton Hall Porcelain Flower Basket Dishes Shaped Bowl and Flower-Encrusted Cover Circa 1755, unmarked Circa 1756-58, unmarked Of 'Trembly Rose' type, each naturalistically Naturalistically modeled as a lobed wicker molded as a large strawberry leaf, the handle as basket, the cover applied with garden flowers a spiral twisted vine tendril, finely painted with a including; a carnation, honeysuckle, anemone, tight bouquet and two small flower sprays, the rose and other flowers beneath an arched faux veins picked out in puce, within shaded yellow rattan wrapped bail handle. and green borders. Height 7 1/2 inches, width 6 1/4 inches. Width overall of each 8 1/2 inches. Provenance: Provenance: The William Bemrose Collection. Colonel J.H.H. Robinson Collection. Sotheby's, London, 29 June 1971, lot 101. Christie's, London, 22 February 1972, lot 66.

For a similar example, see the Wrightsman Literature: Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vol. 4, p. William Bemrose, Longton Hall Porcelain, pl. 362. For an example from the Griffin Collection XVIII and illustrated in pl. A in an image at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, U.K., see "representing a Dining Table as used around object no. C.116B-1918. 1750". C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $3,000-5,000 A variant example was in the Blohm Collection, sold Sotheby's, London, 5 July 1960, lot 116 and illustrated in color by Schmidt, Early European 83 Porcelain as Collected by Otto Blohm, pl. 103 Two Longton Hall Porcelain Leaf-Shaped C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell Dishes $5,000-8,000 Circa 1755, unmarked In the Chelsea style, each naturalistically molded as a broad cabbage leaf with puce veins and curved stock handle, the center painted with a tight bouquet of roses and other flowers, within shaded yellow and green borders. Height overall 10 1/2 inches.

Provenance: Colonel J.H.H. Robinson Collection. Christie's, London, 22 February 1972, lot 65.

For a pair of cabbage leaves offered together with a cos-lettuce leaf dish, see Sotheby's, New York, 20-21 October 2003, lot 34 (worn and without bouquets). C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $2,000-4,000

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85 87 Pair of Longton Hall Porcelain Figures of Longton Hall Porcelain Figure of a Flautist Musicians Circa 1754-57, unmarked Circa 1758, unmarked Modeled as a seated girl, playing a flute, in pale Modeled dancing, the tambourine player wearing purple dress, the mound base applied with a plumed blue hat, an unusually tailored iron-red yellow flowers and green foliage. lined yellow coat cut away to reveal her puce Height 5 inches. bodice, the pale-green sleeves with lace Vandyke-style cuffs, ruffled flowered skirt and Provenance: yellow shoes with matching iron-red bows; her M. Mellanay Delhom Collection, Charlotte, NC. companion, the lyre player, wearing a black plumed hat, a matching cut-away iron-red lined This model is derived from a Meissen prototype puce coat, yellow waist coat, pale-green sleeves by J.J. Kändler of circa 1745. For examples from with lace Vandyke-style collar and cuffs, puce the Katz Collection and the MacAlister breeches and black shoes with yellow bows, the Collection, see Bernard Watney, Longton Hall scroll molded tree-stump base edge in puce and Porcelain, pl. 29B. Also see the E.C.C. pale-green. Transactions, Vol. 1, no. 3, 1935. See the British Height 11 1/2 inches. Museum, no. 1959,1102.106, for an example of a closely related form now attributed to Vauxhall. Provenance: C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell Both with James A. Lewis & Sons, New York $1,500-3,000 (labels). Senator E.A. Maguire Collection. 88 Christie's, London, 21 April 1958, lot 47 (male Pair of Longton Hall Porcelain Figures of a figure only). Musician and Companion Anonymous sale, Christie's, New York 21 April 1982, lot 64. Circa 1755, unmarked The male modeled seated holding a violin, in M. Mellanay Delhom Collection, Charlotte, NC. (1982). black hat, puce floral jacket, yellow breeches, yellow cloak and black shoes; the female modeled seated holding a sheet of music, in See William Bemrose, Longton Hall Porcelain, pl. XXI; Also see Bernard Watney, Longton Hall mobcap, yellow jacket, puce floral skirt, iron-red Porcelain, pl. 74a and b for an identical pair of shawl and matching shoes, both on rocky scroll- molded bases enriched in pink, iron-red and figures in the Lord Fisher Collection in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, U.K. For a male green. musician from the Duckwall Collection, see Height of male 6 1/2 inches; height of female 5 1/2 inches. Catherine B. Lippert, Eighteenth-Century English Porcelain in the Collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, pp.259-262, cat. no. 63. A pair Provenance: Mrs. Graham Sebastian. was sold from the Collection of Mrs. Charles Dunlap, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, 3-6 December Christie's, London 13 November 1972, lot 21. 1975, lot 185. For a similar pair in the Lord Fisher Collection at

An unidentified saltglazed stoneware version of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK, see this model is known and may be associated with The E.C.C. Transaction Catalogue, 1948, pl. 78. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell William Littler. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $2,000-3,000 $5,000-8,000 89 Longton Hall Porcelain Figure of a 86 Longton Hall Porcelain Candlestick Figure of Fashionable Lady a Putto Circa 1756, unmarked Modeled dancing, with left arm raised and right Circa 1756-58, unmarked Modeled seated resting against a gnarled tree hand holding her white apron to reveal a floral applied with leaves and flowers, scantily clad in a skirt, her hair adorned with a feather, the iron-red trimmed and pink fitted bodice with scalloped puce drape, her hair adorned with a floral garland, the circular base raised on three hem and bows at the shoulder, the rocaille- rocaille-scroll feet enriched in puce. molded scroll enriched in puce and applied with flowers and foliage. Height 6 7/8 inches. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell Height 6 1/2 inches. $800-1,200 At one time this model was attributed to Derby, for an illustration and discussion, see the E.C.C. Transactions, Vol. II, Part 3, 1935, p. 19. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $1,000-1,500

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90 92 Longton Hall Porcelain Leaf-Molded Hexafoil Longton Hall Porcelain Leaf-Form Dish Chamberstick Circa 1756, unmarked, possibly painted by John Circa 1755-57, unmarked Hayfield The drip-pan naturalistically modeled as a grape The center painted by the 'Castle Painter' with a leaf, a curved vine tendril forming the stone bridge overlooking a river landscape with a chamberstick handle, the veins enriched in puce, tower keep and other buildings, the border the leaf edge shaded in yellow and green, the molded as six radiating heart-shaped hollyhock conforming circular nozzle formed by six lightly leaves with short stems, the veins in puce, the curled smaller leaves. edges in shaded yellow and green. Length overall 6 inches. Diameter 8 inches.

Provenance: Provenance: Mr. & Mrs. James Steward Collection. Charles A. Willoughby, Esq. Sotheby's, London, 13 November 1973, lot 26. Sotheby's, London, 25 June 1956, lot 130. With Winifred Williams, London. See Bernard Watney, Longton Hall Porcelain, figure 56a, for a similar dish. Also see the No other example is currently extant. A fragment example from the Mildred S. Hilson Collection, of a similar chamberstick was unearthed during sold Christie's, New York, 14 October 1995, lot excavations on the site of the Longton Hall 218 and now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, factory. New York, Accession no.: 1995.490. Also see C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell the Gardiner Museum, Toronto, object no. $5,000-8,000 G91.7.35

93 Though the 'Castle Painter' may have been more Longton Hall Porcelain Cauliflower-Form than one artist, this style of decoration has long Tureen and Cover been associated with John Hayfield, the only painter mentioned in the 1755 agreement. Circa 1756, unmarked Naturalistically modeled upright, the cover C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $2,000-4,000 molded as the flower with a sprouting floret finial, the interior painted with flower sprigs and leaves, the bowl formed as thickly ribbed white stems 91 with shaded yellow and green edges. Longton Hall Porcelain Cabbage Leaf-Molded Height overall 5 inches, diameter of bowl 5 3/4 Bowl inches. Circa 1755-57, unmarked Naturalistically molded with broad overlapping For an example from the Bernice Chrysler leaves, the veins in puce, the edges shaded in Garbisch Collection, see Geoffrey Godden, yellow and green. Staffordshire Porcelain, p. 25, pl. 28. This Diameter 7 inches. example subsequently sold, Sotheby's, New York, 17 May 1980, lot 8. Another in Mrs. C.J. Provenance: Devine, Sr. Collection, sold Christie's, New York, Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 22 9 October 1985, lot 24. Similarly see an February 1972, lot 149. anonymous sale, Christie's, New York, 21 & 22 October 2010, lot 70. Also see the example from the Mildred S. Hilson Collection, the interior painted by the 'Castle In Simon Spero's Exhibition Catalog 1990, no. Painter' sold Christie's, New York, 14 October 16, he states that the model perhaps 1995, lot 224 and then offered by Sotheby's, corresponds with the "Colliflowers" mentioned in Amsterdam, 21 & 22 February 2006, lot 857. For the advertisement for "A new and curious an example with a matching cover and stand, Porcelain or China of the Longton-Hall see the Collection formed by Mrs. Paul Mellon, Manufactory." offered for sale from 12th to 25th sold at Sotheby's, New York, 21-23 November April 1757. 2004, lot 1480. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $5,000-8,000 $1,000-2,000

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94 96 Longton Hall Porcelain Cos-Lettuce Leaf Two Longton Hall Porcelain Strawberry-Leaf Shaped Dish Molded Plates Circa 1755, unmarked Circa 1755-57, unmarked Naturalistically molded as five overlapping Each center painted in colors by the so-called leaves growing from a curved stalk handle, the 'Trembly Rose' painter with tight rose bouquets veins in puce, the leaf edges shaded in yellow and scattered sprays, the border crisply molded and green. with strawberry leaves and fruiting vine, the Length 9 1/8 inches. veins and vines in puce, the stems and leaves in shaded yellow and green. Dishes of the type, serving as stand for cos Diameter 8 3/4 inches. lettuce-leaf molded sauceboats are illustrated by William Bemrose, Longton Hall Porcelain, cl. pl. Provenance: XLI; Geoffrey Godden, British Porcelain, An Provenance: Illustrated Guide, p. 278, pl. 331; W.B. Honey, Christie's London, 13 April 1970, lot 116 (one). Old English Porcelain, pl. 58B and Bernard Captain Vallange Collection. Watney, Longton Hall Porcelain, pl. 33. Another Louis Nelken, Esq. Collection. dish of this form was sold Sotheby's, New York, Sotheby's, London, 22 February 1972, lot 6 (the 15 April 1996, lot 126. other). C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $2,500-3,500 For a set of six from the Peggy and David Rockefeller Collection, see Christie's, New York, 9 May 2018. These illustrated by D. Fennimore 95 et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Pair of Longton Hall Porcelain Models of a Collection: Decorative Arts, New York, 1992, vol. Ewe and a Ram IV, pp. 144-45, no. 154. Circa 1754-56, pseudo blue crossed swords C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell marks $1,500-2,000 Each naturalistically modeled standing supported by a tree-stump, their fleece with brownish-black fur markings, the oval mound bases applied with 97 colorful flowers, one painted with vine. Longton Hall Porcelain Strawberry-Leaf Height 3 1/2 inches, width 3 1/4 inches. Molded Oval Dish Circa 1757 For similar examples, see the Watney Collection, The center painted in colors with two tight rose Phillips, London, Part 1, 22 September 1999, lots bouquets and scattered sprays, the border with 52 & 53. For a Longton Hall model of a ram with alternating cluster of molded strawberry leaves Meissen crossed swords mark in overglaze blue, and fruiting vine, the veins and vines in puce, the see Bernard Watney, English Ceramic Circle stems and leaves in shades of green. Transactions, Vol. 15, Part 3; and Early Longton Length 12 1/2 inches. Hall Porcelain, Part 1, Coloured Wares, here the author notes that the first models, made between Provenance: 1749 to 1751 were marked in underglaze Sotheby's Parke-Bernet, New York, 1973, lot 156 manganese, but within two years colored (label). enamels were employed. A pair from the Hilson Collection, sold Christie's, New York, 14 October For similar examples, see Phillips, London, 11 1995, lot 236. Also see, the Richard C. Paine December 1996, lot 324; and Christie's, New Collection, Christie's East, New York, 27 October York, 21 - 22 January 1998, lot 481. 1988, lot 60. An identical pair sold, Phillips, C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell London, 3 June 1988, lot 524. See the Peter $1,500-2,500 Bradshaw Collection for an example of an ewe applied with variant foliage, sold Bonham's 24 January 2007, lot 43. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $3,000-5,000

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98 100 Longton Hall or Vauxhall Porcelain Figure Longton Hall Porcelain Figure Emblematic of Group Emblematic of Autumn Autumn Circa 1756, perhaps impressed B, otherwise Circa 1755, unmarked unmarked, probably Vauxhall Modeled as an infant Bacchus, adorned with Modeled as two putti feeding grapes to a goat, grapes and holding a bunch in his left hand, the goat naturalistically shaded in brown, the wearing a puce drapery, supported by a tree- putti in iron-red and yellow drape, the rocaille- stump, the rocky base molded with rocaille- molded scroll base applied with flowers and scrolls enriched in puce and green. Height 5 3/8 enriched in gilt, puce, purple and green. inches Height 5 1/2 inches, width 6 1/4 inches. See Bernard Watney, Longton Hall Porcelain, pl. Exhibition: 52; also see Sotheby's, London, 23 February Gambrell Loan, 18.2 (paper label). 1971, lot 174. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell A hard-paste version of this model with bocage $1,000-1,500 was made at the Plymouth manufactory, see ref. no. 5 in the present listing. For a close group, see Bernard Watney, Longton Hall Porcelain, fig. 64A and p. 38. For a group now attributed to Vauxhall and potentially from the factory of 101 Nicholas Crisp and John Saunders, see the Longton Hall or Vauxhall Porcelain Figure of British Museum, no. 1887,0307,IV.7. For an a Herdsman example from the Katz Collection at the Museum Circa 1756, unmarked of Fine Arts Boston, previously thought to be After the Antique, modeled striding forward Longton Hall and currently listed as 'probably carrying a goat on his shoulder, a staff in his Vauxhall', see 1988.926. For another close right hand, wearing a white floral waistcoat, gilt example from the Bradshaw Collection, circlet and dot decorated cobalt-blue breeches 'attributed to Longton Hall', see Bonham's, 24 and a green cloak over his shoulder, the mound January 2007, lot 52. base applied with red and blue flowers, the C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell rocaille-scrolls enriched in green and puce. $1,500-3,000 Height 10 inches.

Provenance: 99 William Bemrose Collection. Longton Hall or Vauxhall Porcelain Figure With Robert Williams, London, February 1978. Group Emblematic of Autumn

Circa 1756, perhaps impressed B, otherwise Literature: unmarked, probably Vauxhall William Bemrose, Longton Hall Porcelain, pl. Modeled as two putti feeding grapes to a goat, VIII. the goat naturalistically shaded in brown, the putti in yellow and iron-red drape, the rocaille- The model derived from an ancient Roman molded scroll base applied with flowers and sculpture, see the Prado Museum, Madrid. See enriched in puce, purple and green. Roger Massey, Vauxhall Porcelain Figures, Height 5 1/2 inches, width 6 1/4 inches. E.C.C. Transactions, Vol. 25, 2014. Comparison examples can be found at the Victoria & Albert A hard-paste version of this model with bocage Museum, no. C.74-1938, illustrated in color by was made at the Plymouth manufactory, see ref. J.L. Dixon, English Porcelain of the Eighteenth no. 5 in the present listing. For a closely related Century, pl. C and in the Lord and Lady Fisher group, see Bernard Watney, Longton Hall Collection at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Porcelain, fig. 64A and p. 38. For a group now Cambridge, shown in the E.C.C. Exhibition 1948, attributed to Vauxhall and potentially from the Catalogue, pl. 76, no. 350. A similar example factory of Nicholas Crisp and John Saunders, was sold Sotheby's, London, 23 February 1971, see the British Museum, no. 1887,0307,IV.7. For lot 175. For a strikingly similar example listed as an example from the Katz Collection at the either Longton Hall or Vauxhall, see the National Museum of Fine Arts Boston, previously thought Museums Scotland, no. K.2002.1158. to be Longton Hall and currently listed as C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell 'probably Vauxhall', see 1988.926. For another $5,000-7,000 close example from the Bradshaw Collection, 'attributed to Longton Hall', see Bonham's, 24 January 2007, lot 52. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $1,500-3,000

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102 103 Pair of Longton Hall or Vauxhall Porcelain Large Vauxhall Porcelain Figure of Britannia Blue and White Mythological Candlestick and a Corresponding Rococo Pedestal Figures Circa 1758-60, unmarked Circa 1756-58, unmarked, probably Vauxhall Modeled seated reclining against a recumbent Each winged figure modeled kneeling before a lion, wearing décolleté puce and floral decorated flowering tree, raised on a rocaille-scroll molded classical Roman garb and ship headdress, base, Cupid taking aim with his bow and arrow at resting her left foot on a globe, a shield with a flaming heart held in Psyche's right hand, a 'Union Jack' in her right hand, a relief molded quiver and bow at her feet, the drapery, a few royal portrait medallion in her left, the scroll base flowers, the arrow flights and the scroll foot with military trophies including: a helmet, the butt enriched in mazarine blue. of a gun, a trumpet mouth, a standard and a Height 7 1/2 inches, width 5 3/8 inches. coat-of-mail, the fine details picked out with gilding, the rocaille-molded scroll pedestal Provenance: printed in brown and enriched in colors with a Dr. Charles A. Hepburn Collection. military scene perhaps depicting the Seven Christie's, London, 13 November 1972, lot 65. Years War (1756-1763), the scrollwork surround enriched in gilt, puce, iron-red and green. Height Literature: 15 1/2 inches. R.J. Charleston, English Porcelain, pl. 26A. Provenance: At the time of cataloguing no other examples of Sotheby's London, 1972 these candlestick figures could be found. For With Winifred Williams Antiques, Eastbourne, bocage figures with similar distinctive applied Sussex flowering trees, see Bernard Watney, Longton Hall Porcelain, pls. 42, 43, 45A, 57A and B. Britannia was the Roman personification of Though no examples of this model could be Britain, revived in the 17th century to represent located, the applied flowers, modelling and the the nation. inky blue coloration on the present pair relate to For an example from the Harkness Collection characteristics found on those being reattributed identified as Longton Hall, see the Cleveland to Vauxhall. Museum of Art, accession no. 1917.626. For a C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell similar example of this figure on stand, see the $4,000-6,000 Cincinnati Art Museum, accession no. 1973.107. For a third example from the Hobson Collection, see the British Museum, no. 1887,0307,I.18. For an example from the Schreiber Collection, originally purchased as Bow, previously attributed to Longton Hall and now listed as Vauxhall, see the Victoria & Albert Museum, object no. 414:4/&A-1885. Here, the printed and enriched decoration listed as a Vauxhall innovation. Also see John Austin, 'I-Porcelain', Ceramics in America, 2014, fig. 17 for the reattributions connected with the example at Colonial Williamsburg C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $10,000-15,000

104 West Pans Porcelain Fluted Teabowl and Saucer Circa 1765, unmarked Painted in colors with bouquets of roses and other flowers and scattered sprays. Height of saucer 1 3/4 inches, diameter 4 5/8 inches.

A similarly shaped undecorated teabowl and saucer was in the Watney Collection, sold Phillips, London, 10 May 2000, Part 2, lot 520. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $500-800

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105 108 West Pans Porcelain Figural Triple-Shell West Pans Porcelain 'Littler's Blue' Ground Sweetmeat Stand Leaf-Form Hexafoil Two-Handled Oval Small Circa 1765, unmarked Tureen, Cover and Stand Modeled as three conjoined shells surmounted Circa 1765-75, blue crossed L's to stand and by a Harlequin figure of a bagpiper, the piper blue crossed L's and 3 dot mark to tureen with conical puce and blue hat, playing card Naturalistically molded as overlapping leaves, painted shirt, yellow breeches, Argyle socks and the mazarine-blue ground enriched with traces of black shoes, the interior of the shells painted in cold gilt decoration including small leaves, colors with flower sprays, within brown line rims, trailing flowers and a fugitive crowned armorial the speckled base with insects. on each end of the stand, the tureen flanked by Height 8 1/2 inches, width 9 inches. out-turned leaf handles, the cover finial as conjoined leaves. Provenance: Height of tureen 6 1/6 inches, width 8 1/4 inches; With Roderick Jellicoe, English Porcelain Ltd., width of the stand 11 1/8 inches. London, (1994). For a Littler's blue example with Chinese This sweetmeat model and the Harlequin landscape reserves, see the Katz Collection, The bagpiper as an independent figure are known at Fine Arts Museum Boston, accession no. both Longton Hall and West Pans. For a West 1988.960a-c. For a similarly conceived butter-tub Pans Harlequin piper from a Scottish private and cover with variant finial, see the Longton collection, see the 'Out of the Blue' exhibition Hall example from the British Museum Illustrated catalogue, Museum of Edinburgh, 2008, p. 34, by William Bemrose, Longton Hall Porcelain, pl. fig. 40. For another example, see the Katz X, no. 2. Collection, Boston. For an example attributed to C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell Longton Hall, see Bonham's, London, 2 $3,000-5,000 December 2009, lot 71. The bagpiper model is ultimately derived from a Meissen prototype. For 109 an extensive discussion on attributions given to a Pair of West Pans Porcelain Mazarine-Blue strikingly similar stand surmounted by a figure of Ground Flowers-Encrusted Vases and Ceres, see the British Museum, no. Covers 1938,0314.91.CR. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell Circa 1756, blue crossed L's and dots marks In the Rococo taste, each of rocaille-scroll form $5,000-8,000 painted with flower sprays within a gilt cartouche, the ruffled shoulder and circular foot applied with 106 flowers, the cover encrusted with violets, West Pans Porcelain 'Littler's Blue' Ground dianthus, roses and other flowers. Leaf-Shaped Dish or Stand Height 8 inches. Circa 1770, crossed L's mark Modeled as a sycamore-shaped leaf with white Provenance: branch handle, the interior molded as flowering Purchased 1974. strawberry vine, reserved in deep cobalt blue, enriched with fugitive gilt decoration. For a Longton Hall comparison model, see the Length 9 1/2 inches. Griffin Collection at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, U.K., object no. C.115 & A-1918. Exhibition: C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell Gambrell Loan, 38.2 (paper label). $1,500-2,500

For a similar example, see the Watney 110 Collection, sold Phillips, London, 22 September West Pans Porcelain Tapering Cylinderical 1999, Part 1, lot 105. Armorial Inkwell C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell Circa 1765, unmarked $1,000-1,500 Of cylindrical form with tapering shoulder, the central well with a fugitive inscription 'WILLm 107 DICK', above a painted blazon of a sailing ship in West Pans Porcelain 'Littler's Blue' Ground distress, beneath a motto banner inscribed Leaf-Shaped Dish 'SPES INFRACTA', the sides painted with roses Circa 1770, crossed L's mark and other flowers, the shoulder pierced with Modeled as a sycamore-shaped leaf with white three apertures to hold quills, the well and neck vine handle, the interior molded with stawberrry with an iron-red line. leaves and flowers, reserved in a deep mazarine Height 2 3/4 inches, diameter 3 1/8 inches. blue and enriched with fugitive gilt leaf decoration. William de Dick, the ancestral head of the Length 9 1/2 inches. Scottish clan Dick, was the first magistrate in Edinburgh in 1296. The family motto translates Exhibition: as 'Hope goes Unbroken'. Gambrell Loan, 38.1 (paper label). Another West Pans inkwell was in the Watney For a similar example, see the Watney Collection, sold Phillips, London, 1 November Collection, sold Phillips, London, 22 September 2000, lot 891. 1999, Part 1, lot 105. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $2,000-4,000 $1,000-1,500 Sale Date - 06/24/2021 Page 30

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111 113 West Pans Earthenware 'Littler's Blue' Liverpool (Philip Christian & Co.) Porcelain Ground Leaf-Molded Stand Teapot and Cover Circa 1765-70, unmarked Circa 1775 Lozenge shaped, the rim molded with alternate Of tapering globular form, molded with 'Palm three overlapping leaf clusters of maple or Leaf and Column' forming arched reserves primrose, the mazarine blue ground pooling to above a band of stiff leaf tips enameled in deep cobalt at one side of the central well, the turquoise and puce, the reserves painted with rim edged in gilt. loose polychrome bouquets, the neck and Length 9 1/2 inches. domed cover border with iron-red scrollwork garlands. Provenance: Height 7 1/4 inches, width overall 7 3/4 inches. Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry Collection, Dalkeith House, Midlothian, Scotland. At one time this form was incorrectly attributed to Christie's, London, 10 October 1970, lot 3 (sold Longton Hall, current scholarship notes it was with bowl, since separated). first produced in Liverpool by Philip Christian and later at the Seth Pennington factory. For a similar See the British Museum, London no. OA.10515, example, see Bernard Watney, Liverpool for a similarly molded soft-paste porcelain Porcelain, fig. 138. Also see W.B. Honey, Old example with a white center. For an earthenware English Porcelain, pl. 117c. A Christian's example, see Sotheby's, New York, 20 October example was sold, Bonham's, London, 23 June 1997, lot 297. Also, reference The Watney 2004, lot 1168. Comparative Christian's and Collection, Phillips, 22 September 1999, Part 1, Pennington examples can be reviewed at the lot 106; and the paper by Bernard Watney and Victoria & Albert Museum, London, accession John Ainslie, 'The West Pans Story', E.C.C. nos. C.1184/&A-1924, C.662&A-1935 and Transaction, Vol. 6, Part 2, p. 172 for an excerpt others. from an advertisement in the Caledonian C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell Mercury of June 1767, where a potter named $500-800 William Cadell at Prestopans is mentioned offering 'white stoneware'. 114 C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell Lund's Bristol Porcelain 'Documentary' Blue $2,000-3,000 and White Cream Boat Circa 1749-51, marked Bristol in raised letters 112 Of silver shape, the angular bracket handle with West Pans Porcelain 'Littler's Blue' Ground high thumb-rest, the hexagonal sided exterior Armorial Cream-Jug from the 'Duke of molded with fan-shaped panels painted with an Rutland Service' Oriental figure holding a fan and with a Circa 1765-70, unmarked riverscape with a sampan in the foreground, Pear-shaped with sparrow beak spout and loop beneath the lip a panel of flower sprigs, the handle, molded with ribbon-tied floral reserves, flaring interior rim with a central scroll flanked by the center painted in iron-red with a peacock and trailing flowers alternate with leaf tips. torsade below the motto 'POUR Y PARVENIR', Height 1 1/2 inches. the side cartouches with sparse bouquets within runny deep cobalt-blue reserves, the interior with Provenance: an iron-red scalloped line border. Mr. & Mrs. James McG. Stewart, Halifax, Nova Height 4 inches. Scotia, Canada. Sotheby's, London, 13 November 1973, lot 21. See Dr. Minnie Holdaway, Moulded Porcelain With Winifred Williams Ltd., London (1973). Wares made by William Littler at West Pans, Digging for Early Porcelain, eds. David Barker For a strikingly similar documentary example and Sam Cole, p. 26. Also see Bonham's, from the Gardiner Collection, see the Gardiner London, 13 December 2006, lot 238 for a coffee- Museum, Toronto, no. G83.1.1185. Another from cup from this service sold in a group lot of six the A.J. Smith Collection is illustrated by Simon early cups and a saucer. Spero, Lund's Bristol and Early Worcester C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell Porcelain, p.72. Also see Geoffrey A. Godden, $1,000-2,000 Godden's Guide to English Blue and White Porcelain, p. 118, pls. 129-129a. Compare an unmarked example of this form with Long Eliza, sold, The Country House Sale: Pomfret House and Tetworth Hall, Christie's, 5 November 2008, London, South Kensington, lot 281; and an unmarked example, sold, Bonham's, London, 3 November 2016, lot 217. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $10,000-15,000

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115 118 Bristol Porcelain Teabowl and Saucer Bristol (Richard Champion) Porcelain Figure Circa 1775, pseudo blue crossed swords and dot of a Gardner's Companion mark, gilt 1. Circa 1775 Finely enameled with ribbon-tied laurel wreaths Modeled standing carrying a pierced yellow and swags entwined with floral rose garlands, flower-filled basket hooked over her right arm, within gilt dentil rims. the young maiden wearing a turquoise brimmed Diameter 5 1/8 inches. hat with puce bow, her fichu enameled in puce, over a floral patterned turquoise dress and white Provenance: apron, her black shoes with turquoise bows, the Captain Vallange Collection. grassy mound base applied with a four-leaf Louis Nelken, Esq. Collection. clover. Alfred Trapnell Collection. Height 4 3/4 inches. Sotheby's, London, 22 February 1972, lot 16. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell Provenance: $700-1,000 Christie's, London, 14 May 1973, lot 164.

F. Severne MacKenna in Plymouth & Bristol 116 Porcelain, p. 96, notes this model and her male Bristol (Richard Champion) Porcelain Saucer companion "are extremely rare and are very Dish interesting to compare with the Worcester Circa 1775, pseudo blue crossed swords and dot prototypes, being reversed and reduced versions mark and gilt 1 of the latter." A single example of the male Finely enameled with a central rose spray within gardener was sold by Sotheby's, London, 23 flower swags forming a pentagonal star, the boss June 1944. The only other known pair was sold points suspending laurel pendants and issuing by Sotheby's, London 12 March 1957, lot 109 gilt grasses, gilt dentil rim. and again Sotheby's, New York, 27 October Diameter 7 1/4 inches. 1992, sale no. 6352. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell For a similar example, see the Herbert Allen $3,000-5,000 Collection, Victoria & Albert Museum, no. 462. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $300-500 119 Bristol Porcelain Trio Circa 1775, blue crossed lines marks 117 Comprising: an ogee-shaped coffee-cup, teacup Pair of Bristol (Richard Champion) Porcelain and saucer, each enameled and gilt with a Lobed Dessert Plates central puce trellis band, between narrow bands Circa 1775, blue crossed lines and b marks of laurel, the reserves with rose blossoms, within Each finely enameled with a central bouquet and gilt dentil rims, the scroll handles picked out in budding sprigs, the lobed rim with smaller gilt. bouquets alternating with flower sprays, within a Diameter of saucer 5 inches. gilt dentil rim. Diameter 9 inches. Provenance: Provenance: Mrs. V.R. Calloway Collection, Pasadena, CA. Sotheby's & Co., London, 10 December 1974, lot Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 4 December 191. 1970, lot 297. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $1,000-2,000 $800-1,200

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120 121 Set of Four Bristol (Richard Champion) Bristol Porcelain Coffee Cup and Saucer from Porcelain Figures Allegorical of the Seasons the 'Colston Service' Circa 1775, the modelling attributed to Pierre Circa 1775, blue crossed lines mark

Stephan, repairer's impressed T° on Summer The cup of double-ogee form with angular scroll and Winter, (often titled 'The Child Seasons' or handle, each enameled in blue and gilt with a `The Rustic Seasons') garland of forget-me-nots forming the initial `C' Each modeled in contemporary dress, Spring below a wreath, within gilt dentil rims. represented as a striding barefoot maiden Diameter of saucer 5 inches. supporting a flower-filled basket against her right hip, her left hand raised placing a posy in her Provenance: garlanded hair, her yellow lined short jacket Dr. William P. Harbeson Collection (no. E.B. 3, opening to reveal a pink and blue laced bodice, paper label). above a flowing gilt enriched floral patterned Sotheby's Parke-Bernet, New York, 4 April 1972, skirt, on a rocky mound base; Summer lot 95. represented as a bare-legged boy leaning against a tree-stump, holding a sheaf of wheat Exhibition Literature: and a sickle at his hip while offering a few grains Bristol Porcelain Bicentenary Exhibition, 1770- in his extended left hand, his chemise rolled at 1970, 4 May - 27 June 1970, p. 22. the sleeves and draped to reveal a bare chest and shoulder, above floral breeches, his coat F. Severne MacKenna, Champion's Bristol thrown over a beehive at the back, on a rocky Porcelain, p. 63, records a pair of Colston mound base; Autumn represented as a barefoot service cups and saucers in the Alfred Trapnell young maiden standing beside rockwork while Collection. These are illustrated on pl. xxiii of the supporting with both hands a basket of fruit on corresponding Albert Amor collection catalogue. her left hip, she wears a pink kerchief headdress C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell and a floral dress secured by a blue belt, the $700-1,000 hem lifted to reveal a puce quilted underskirt, on a rocky mound base; Winter represented as a 122 young boy skating with arms crossed, wearing a Bristol Porcelain Initialed Teabowl and black hat trimmed with a bow and holly, his faun Saucer colored jacket lined with fur, above gilt enriched floral patterned breeches, a rush- basket filled Circa 1774, from a service possibly made for Joseph Harford with game slung by a purple sash at his waist, on a faux-ice base. Height 10 1/2 inches. The fluted teabowl and saucer finely painted in puce camaïeu with a central putto among clouds holding a bow above a shield initialed in black Provenance: Rev. V.J. Haggins Collection. `JMH', surrounded by pendant floral bouquets With James A. Lewis & Son, Inc., New York enclosed by gilt scrolls and scattered sprays, within gilt dentil rims. (paper label). Mrs. Charles Dunlap Collection, no. 590 (paper Diameter of saucer 4 3/4 inches. label). Provenance: Sotheby's, Parke-Bernet, New York, 3 December 1975, lot 222. Christie's, London, 27 March 1972, lot 101 (one of a pair). Christie's, London, 23 February 1976, lot 133. Exhibited: Museum and Art Gallery Nottingham Castle (exhibition label). It is currently thought that these elaborately decorated and initialed teawares were likely

See Arthur Lane, English Porcelain Figures of made for Champion's business collaborator and the 18th Century, pp. 126-127 and pls. 92-93, for neighbor, Joseph Harford who contributed £3,000 to the porcelain venture. a discussion of the related Derby French Seasons attributed to Pierre Stephan and for documentary evidence that the Adult Seasons An alternate suggestion is recorded by F. Severne MacKenna, Bristol Porcelain, p. 64, were made by him at Champion's Bristol. Another complete set is recorded in the where it is noted, they may match a service Schreiber Collection at the Victoria & Albert made for Joseph Hickey, however, this service is listed by Owen as "a somewhat plain affair" Museum, London (nos. 414:729 A-D - 1885). Also see Severne MacKenna, Champion's Bristol which seems an unlikely description for the Porcelain, fig. 99. A set was sold Sotheby's, present example.

London, 19 March 1963 lot 164. For a teabowl and saucer from this initialed Arthur Lane and others have attributed the service, see Bonham's, London, 6 June 2007, lot modelling to Pierre Stephan who, along with 375. Note that the putto on this example holds a Nicholas Gauron, introduced a more flaming torch. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell accomplished style from Tournai and France. The repairer's mark T° is traditionally ascribed to $1,000-2,000 'Tebo' but may possibly be John Toulouse or another.

Also reference Bernard Rackham, Victoria & Albert Museum Publication, Issue 106C, Catalogue of the Schreiber Collection, Vol. I.- Porcelain, pls. 78 & 79, nos. 729. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell Sale$10,000 Date-15,000 - 06/24/2021 Page 33

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123 125 Four Bristol Porcelain Dessert Wares Plymouth (William Cookworthy) Porcelain Circa 1775-77, blue crossed lines and b marks Bocage Figure Group Modeled after the Sèvres forms tasses à glace Circa 1769-70, unmarked sur plateau Bouret, comprising a stand and three Modeled as two putti gathering narcissus and ice-cream cups, each finely enameled with other flowers beside a long-horned billy goat with scattered flower sprays within gilt dentil rims, the flowers in his mouth, before a flowering bocage cups with ear-shaped gilt enriched scroll on a rocaille-molded scroll base. handles, the stand with lobed rim and double- Height 8 3/4 inches. foot rim. Diameter of stand 8 1/4 inches. Provenance: T.D. & T.O. Kellock Collection. Provenance: Sotheby's & Co., London, 18 July 1972, lot 129. Robert Williams, London, 1974. See William Bemrose, Longton Hall Porcelain, An additional cup of this description and possibly pl. XI for two related groups of cherubs feeding a painted by the same hand is illustrated by F. goat (these now thought to be Vauxhall). See the Severne MacKenna, Champions Bristol British Museum, no. 1981,0101.393, for a similar Porcelain, fig. 32. At the time of this appraisal no bocage candleholder group with variant applied other examples of these forms were extant. flowers, once attributed to William Cookworthy at Plymouth, now tested as soft-paste and Although they had been known in England since reattributed to Vauxhall. the 1670's, flavored ices and ice creams were C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell popularized by French and Italian confectioners $1,000-1,500 who set up shops in London and a few other cities in the 1760's. For a variety of Georgian 126 recipes, see Ivan Day, www.historicfood.com. Pair of Plymouth Porcelain Models of C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell Pheasants $4,000-6,000 Circa 1768-70 Each opposing bird modeled with head and tail 124 raised, perched atop a short tree-stump applied Pair of Plymouth (William Cookworthy) with flowering vine, the crest of the starry-eyed Porcelain Figures of Putti bird in red, the neck plumage in yellow and Circa 1768-70, unmarked brown, the tail feathers and wing tips enriched Each opposing seated figure wearing a floral primarily in red, puce and light blue. wreath and drape, modeled with one arm resting Height 5 1/4 inches. on a flower-filled urn, the tree-stump and mound base applied with clusters of narcissus and other Provenance: distinct flowers and foliage. Sotheby's, London, 14 May 1974, lot 125. Height 5 3/4 inches. At the time of this appraisal no other examples of Provenance: this model are extant. A larger pair of pheasants With James A. Lewis & Sons, Inc., New York were sold by Sotheby's, London 8 October 1952, (label to underside). lot 116. Also compare Bernard Rackham, M. Mellanay Delhom Collection, Charlotte, NC. Victoria & Albert Museum Publication, Issue 106C, Catalogue of the Schreiber Collection, Compare Bernard Rackham, Victoria & Albert Vol. I.-Porcelain, pl. 74, no. 703 for an 8-in. high, Museum Publication, Issue 106C, Catalogue of white example and no. 704 for an unillustrated the Schreiber Collection, Vol. I.-Porcelain, no. pair of the same size. Link to 690. http://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/40480 C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell for a pheasant measuring 20 cm. at the $1,500-2,500 Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge University. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $2,000-4,000

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127 129 Plymouth Porcelain Small Mug Plymouth (William Cookworthy) Porcelain Circa 1768-70, iron-red alchemical tin mark, the Triple-Shell Sweetmeat Stand painting attributed to `Monsieur Soqui' Circa 1768-70, unmarked, probably modeled by Of bell-shape with loop handle, enameled in John Toulouse colors with two `fancy' birds strutting in a Of tripartite form, surmounted by a large shell, landscape flanked by trees, beneath a chocolate perhaps a spiny frog shell (Bufonaria echinata line rim. and Harpa major), above three conjoined open Height 3 3/4 inches. scallop shells, each interior enameled with a broad bouquet within a gilt rim, supported on Provenance: addorsed dolphin tails, the seaweed mound base Dr. Charles A. Hepburn Collection. applied with coral, seaweed and small shells. Christie's, London, 13 November 1972, lot 68. Height 7 1/4 inches, diameter 7 inches.

Michel Socquet or Soquet, (a.k.a. 'Monsieur Provenance: Soqui'), was a French painter, working in Sotheby's & Co., London, 12 March 1974, lot England, ca. 1764-72. The workman records at 154. the Sèvres Manufactory list him as a painter in 1753; 1756-1764; 1773-1774. For a strikingly similar sweetmeat stand, noted as William Cookworthy either Plymouth or See Donald C. Pierce, English Ceramics, The Bristol, circa 1768-72, see Bonham's, London, 3 Frances and Emory Locke Collection, Atlanta: November 2016, lot 237. For a white example High Museum of Art, p. 218, no. 210 for a mug and an extensive review, see Stock Spring with similar bird painting, sometimes attributed to Antiques Exhibition Catalogue, 'Inspired by Blanc 'Monsieur Soqui', a French artist supposedly de Chine, The Anthony Collection of White employed by William Cookworthy, and Porcelain', London, 7th June - 14th June 2017, sometimes attributed to a London decorator. For no. 92. a discussion on this style of painting and an C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell illustration of a similar mug, see F. Severne $1,500-3,000 Mackenna, Cookworthy's Plymouth and Bristol Porcelain, pl. 33, fig. 53, and p. 91. 130

Set of Four Plymouth (William Cookworthy) Also see Gervaise Jackson-Stops, The Treasure Porcelain White Figures of the Continents Houses of Great Britain, p. 485, no. 422 for another mug with similar decoration in the Circa 1770, unmarked Morely Collection at Saltram House, Devon. All four modeled standing on carved rococo- scroll bases, the semi-nude America with C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $1,000-1,500 feathered headdress and tunic, her right hand drawing an arrow from a quiver, a prairie dog at her feet; Asia wearing a 'jeweled diadem, 128 necklace and bracelet, her décolleté silk robes Continental Porcelain Large Mug revealing her left shoulder, holding a censor, a 19th Century, pseudo alchemical tin mark, camel at her side; Africa with a drape at her hip, attributed to Samson a crocodile and a lion at her side, and an In the Plymouth style, of pear-shape with reeded elephant mask helmet at her feet; and Europe as loop handle and splayed foot, enameled with a a classic muse holding a book and an artist's displaying bird and another in flight bird in a palette, a horse, cannon and cuirass at her feet. rocky landscape flanked by trees, beneath a gilt Height of larger 13 1/2 inches. latticework rim. Height 6 3/4 inches. Provenance: T.D. & T.O. Kellock Collection. Provenance: Sotheby's & Co., London, 18 July 1972, lot 127. Dr. William P. Harbeson Collection (no. E.P. 2, paper label). For a set of four similar white examples, see Sotheby's Parke-Bernet, 4 April 1972, part lot 95. Sotheby's, London 9 May 1941, lot 23 and a colored set, 27 February 1968, lot 80. The For a nearly identical example, see Woolley & Plymouth Museum preserves a colored set; Wallace, Salisbury, U.K., 29 November 2006, lot these are currently on display at the 'William 662. Cookworthy: Pioneer of Porcelain' Exhibition C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell 2017-18 at the New Cookworthy Museum, $50-150 Kingsbridge. For an illustration of the Longton Hall version of these models, see Bernard Watney, Longton Hall Porcelain, pl. 80. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $8,000-12,000

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131 133 Worcester Porcelain Figure of the Turk's Worcester Porcelain Blue-Scale Reticulated Companion or the Levantine Lady Quatrefoil Chestnut Basket, Cover and Stand Circa 1765-70, the model likely by John Circa 1768, blue pseudo-Chinese seal mark to Toulouse stand Modeled standing wearing a red crowned white Of lobed form, the applied crab stock branch turban, a pale-yellow fur-lined coat, a tunic with handles and finials with leafy flower terminals, puce rosettes and blue medallions among the exteriors with yellow-centered puce scattered red dots, a jeweled belt, a gilt banded flowerheads within hexagonal cartouches and white underskirt and iron-red shoes, the rocaille- radiating pierced lappets, the interior painted scroll molded base enriched in gilt and puce and with polychrome flowers sprays within tooled gilt applied with two yellow centered daisies. rocaille-scrollwork surrounds, the cover, stand Height 5 1/2 inches. and footrim with pale-yellow banding. Height overall 5 5/8 inches, width overall of stand Provenance: 10 1/2 inches. Sotheby's, London, 26 June 1956, lot 159. For a similar example from the Zorensky Errol & Henrietta Manners exhibition catalogue, Collection, see Bonham's, London, Part III, 22 'Roy Hogarth Collection of rare English figures', February 2006, lot 135. This example also 27 February 2018, p. 30, for an example of this illustrated by Simon Spero and John Sandon in model on a non-rocaille-molded base. Here The Zorensky Collection Catalogue, p. 230, fig noting that there are only a handful of Worcester 268. The combination of blue-scale grounds with figures extant. yellow borders is unusual and produces a striking effect. The form traditionally known as a For a pair of Worcester figures of a Turk and his chestnut basket, may also have been referred to companion on circular mound bases, see as a 'cream bason'. See the 1769 sale of Sotheby's, London, 2 November 2011, lot 12. Worcester porcelain which included 'Two fine For similar pairs of figures, see The Zorensky oval white and gold cream-basons, pierced Collection, Bonham's, part I, 16 March 2004, lot covers and plates', then realizing the large sum 233, and part II, 23 February 2005, lot 206. of 15s 6d. While examples of figures with the rounded base C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell can be found at the British Museum, no. $4,000-6,000 1938,0314.84.CR, the Museum Fine Arts Boston, no. 1988.1044 and the Dyson Perrins 134 Museum; the present model is the only example Two Worcester Porcelain Yellow-Ground extant on a rocaille-molded base. Reticulated Baskets

The modeler John Toulouse is thought to have Circa 1768 worked at the Worcester factory from circa 1765- Each shallow bowl with flaring sides pierced as interlaced circlets, the pale-yellow exterior 1772 and later at Chamberlain's. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell applied with yellow-centered puce cinquefoil $5,000-7,000 flowerheads at the joins, the interior painted with a large polychrome loose bouquet and scattered sprigs, the decoration extending to the lattice 132 and rims. Worcester (Dr. Wall) Porcelain Cobalt-Blue Height 1 1/2 inches, diameter 5 1/2 inches. Ground Saucer Dish Circa 1765-70, incised sB to underside Provenance: Finely painted in colors with a central moth, Sotheby's, London, 28 October 1969, lot 144. surrounded by three gilt rocaille cartouches enclosing 'fancy' birds in landscapes, alternating See Simon Spero, Worcester Porcelain, The with smaller cartouches enclosing a range of Klepser Collection, p. 91, no. 95. For a slightly insects, reserve on a mottled blue ground, within earlier example, see H. Rissik Marshall, a gilt line rim. Coloured Worcester Porcelain from the First Diameter 6 inches. Period, pl. 13, no. 232. For a strikingly similar C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell example, see Christie's, New York, 24 January $300-500 1992, 131. Also see Bonham's, London, 8 June 2005, lot 228. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $1,500-3,000

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135 138 English Porcelain Salmon-Ground Punch Staffordshire Slipware Cup Bowl Circa 1690-1710 Circa 1810, attributed to Worcester (Barr, Flight Of bell shape with small loop handle, the surface & Barr), the underside painted brown decorated with combed dark brown slip on a The interior finely painted en grisaille with a hunt white slip ground beneath a honey-yellow lead scene depicting five men on horseback with glaze, the unglazed foot rim revealing a reddish- hounds and a fox in full chase in a rugged buff colored earthenware. forested river landscape, the broad border Height 3 inches, width overall 4 1/8 inches. enriched in gilt with trophy medallions among rinceaux scrollwork, the exterior with two similar Provenance: gilt framed panels of hunt scenes, the reserves Sotheby's, London, 17 February 1970, lot 87. gilt with cornucopia among shells and foliage, the high foot with a wide gilt band. Exhibition Literature: Height 6 3/4 inches, diameter 14 1/4 inches. The English Ceramic Circle, 1927-1948: English Pottery and Porcelain. Commemorative The hunting scenes possibly adapted from a Catalogue of an Exhibition held at the Victoria series printed by Thomas Burford after James and Albert Museum, London, 5 May - 20 Seymour (1702-1752). June1948, no. 41. (paper label retained). C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $2,000-4,000 For a similar example, see Christie's, London 7 October 1996, lot 144. Also see, Syd Levethan: The Longridge Collection, Christie's, London, 3 136 November 2011, lot 57. Pair of English Porcelain Gold-Ground C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell Campana Vases and Covers $2,000-3,000 Circa 1820, possibly Derby Of krater form flanked by bracket handles with bearded mask terminals, the shallow domed 139 cover with cone finial, each finely painted with Assembled Wedgwood Variegated specimen bouquets, including: dianthus, Creamware 'Surface Agate' Five-Piece hibiscus, roses, tulips, daffodils and columbine Garniture among others, the lower body burnished and Circa 1775-1780, impressed 'Wedgwood' marks tooled with flowers and stiff-leaf tips, above a Each creamware body with marbleized surface- socle foot and square base. crystaline agate decoration in mottled black and Height 17 1/2 inches, width 10 1/2 inches. brown slips, the laurel swags, banding and handles enriched in gilt, comprising: a large For similar examples, see Christie's, London, 7 central shield-shaped caryatid handled vase and July 2005, lot 468 and 3 June 1996, lot 131. cover; two cassolette shield-shaped vases with C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell reversible ball finial and candle-nozzle lids; and $3,000-5,000 two ovoid bodied ewers with scalloped pouring lip, the high loop handle with satyr's mask terminal, all on circular socles and square ivory- 137 jasperware bases, two of these stepped. English Porcelain Botanical Gilt White Partial Height of largest 12 inches. Dessert Service

Circa 1830-50, iron-red pattern no. 691 Provenance: Each center finely painted with a specimen Private Collection Maryland. flower, including convolvulus, tulips, peony, ranunculus and other flowers within gilt scroll For a Wedgwood & Bentley ewer and a similar and scalloped rims, comprising a footed Wedgwood cassolette vase, see the Victoria & compote, two shell-shaped dishes, two shaped Albert Museum, London, museum nos. 1452- square dishes, four two-handled oval dishes, 1853 and C.2251&A-1910. fifteen dessert plates. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell Diameter 8 3/8 inches. $10,000-15,000

For similar specimen services, also identified as pattern no. 691, see North East Auctions, NH, 26 October 2008, lot 981 and Christie's, London, 6 February 1997, lot 162. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $1,500-2,500

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140 142 Wedgwood Encaustic Black Basaltes Wedgwood Pearlware Blue and White 'Mared 'Commemorative' Two-Handled Urn and Pattern' Partial Service Cover Circa 1785-90, many impressed Wedgwood and Dated 1788, impressed uppercase mark with various blue workman's marks After the Antique kantharos form, the shield- Each decorated in blue with molded feuilles-de- shape vessel with tall upright strap handles, choux above a band of painted pendants. painted in iron-red and white with two Homeric Comprising: figures in the red Attic figure painting style, the twelve dinner plates, diameter 9 inches obverse inscribed and dated `W.M. Moseley / one plate, diameter 11 inches 1788' within an elaborate foliate scroll cartouche, eleven soup plates, diameter 9 3/4 inches the flat cover with broad cylindrical finial, one large circular salad bowl, diameter 15 1/4 decorated with a border of acanthus leaves and inches geometric patterned bands, the socle foot with one large circular bowl, diameter 9 5/8 inches stiff leaf-tips. one large circular bowl, diameter 9 7/8 inches Height 9 3/4 inches. one large circular bowl, diameter 8 5/8 inches one small circular bowl, diameter 7 inches, Provenance: two small circular plates, diameter 6 1/4 inches, Michael Moseley, Esq. by descent. one oval platter, length 20 1/2 inches Sotheby's, London, 18 January 1972, lot 9. one oval platter, length 18 inches C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell one oval platter, length 16 inches $5,000-8,000 one oval platter, length 12 3/4 inches two oval shaped dishes, length 11 1/4 inches one circular stave basket, diameter 8 3/4 inches 141 one circular stave stand, diameter 9 inches Staffordshire Creamware 'Tortoiseshell' two rectangular dishes, length 9 3/4 inches Teapot and Cover one two-handled tureen and cover, length 12 Circa 1760-65 inches The globular pot with loop handle and crabstock one large circular platter, diameter 16 inches spout, the inset cover with acorn finial, one side one large circular platter, diameter 14 inches molded with a Chinese man holding a large palm one large circular platter, diameter 12 inches frond in his right hand, his left extending a flower one large circular platter and pierced strainer, spray on which a bird perches, the cover and diameter 18 inches shoulder bordered with alternating flowerheads two pot de crèmes with three covers & one and scrolls, splashed overall with brown, green condiment dish and cover all in the artichoke and grey colored oxides. pattern Height 4 1/2 inches, width overall 7 1/8 inches. one master salt with spoon one circular tureen and cover with acorn finial Provenance: and ladle, depth 6 1/2 inches Sotheby's, London, 17 February 1970, lot 83

(illustrated). Provenance: C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell George de Ridder Collection, Texas. $400-600

For an oval tureen, cover and stand in this pattern, see Skinner's, Boston, 9 July 2011, lot 91. For an extensive service including many of these forms, see Rafael Osona Auction, Nantucket, MA, 5 August 2017, lot 160. For further examples see the Henry DuPont Collection at the Winterthur Museum, Delaware, accession no. 1969.1346 among others. For two similar footed artichoke pots and covers, see Bonham's, London, 8 June 2005 lot 37. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $4,000-6,000

143 Group of Porcelain and Pottery Reference Books Including John Ayers. Blanc de Chine: Divine Images in Porcelain; Siegfried Ducret. Meissner Porzellan Bemalt in Augsburg, 1718 Bus Um 1750, 2 volumes; Monika Kopplin. Schwartz Porcelain. Die Leidenschaft fur Lack und ihre Wirkung auf das Europäische Porzellan, 2 volumes + 1 volume; F. Severne MacKenna. Chelsea Porcelain: The Triangle & Raised Anchor Wares; F. Severne MacKenna. Chelsea Porcelain: The Red Anchor Wares; J.K. Crellin. Medical Ceramics in the Wellcome Institute. Etc. Approximately forty volumes. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $250-350

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144 Hispano Moresque Copper-Lustre Tin-Glazed Earthenware Charger 16th Century, Manises, Spain The raised centre with a strutting cockerel, the well with woven panels and foliage, bordered by molded underglazed blue fish, the reverse with whorls and concentric bands, pierced for hanging. Diameter 15 inches. C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $500-700

145 Two Hispano Moresque Copper-Lustre Tin- Glazed Earthenware Chargers 16th Century, Manises, Spain One with a rabbit on the central raised well with a band of whorls, bordered by foliage; the other with a monogram within a band of faux script and spiral molded lappets, the reverse on both with concentric banding, pierced for hanging. Diameter of larger 16 1/4 inches C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $400-600

146 Hispano Moresque Copper-Lustre Tin-Glazed Earthenware Large Dish Mid 15th Century, Valencia, Spain Of shallow conical form with flat rim, the centre decorated in copper-lustre with a broad floret in underglaze blue and copper-lustre, within a band of faux script, and a band of copper-lustre- centered flowers and scrolling tendrils, the border with stiff-leaf tips and diaper panels, within blue line rims, the underside broadly painted with scrolling foliage, pierced for hanging. Diameter 16 inches C Estate of Sarah Belk Gambrell $600-900

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GLOSSARY

The following examples define some of the terms SIGNED NICOLAES MAES QUALITY AND CONDITION used in this catalogue. The reader is reminded In our best judgment, the signature, monogram, An attempt has been made to give relevant that all of the terms and descriptions used in this initials or other similar indicia of authorship is a information concerning the quality of the impression, catalogue as to authorship, period, culture, source recognized signature of the artist and appears in the size of the margins and the condition of the or origin for any property are made and used as one of the six areas of the painting designated prints when possible. These descriptions are qualified qualified statements and opinions only, and are as follows: statements or opinions only, and are made subject subject to the Conditions of Sale and the (u.l.) Upper left to the Conditions of Sale and Terms of Guarantee. Terms of Guarantee. (l.l.) Lower left (u.r.) Upper right The print sleeves are the property of Doyle New York In connection with the attribution of authorship, (l.r.) Lower right and are not included in the sale. as described in paragraph 2 of the Terms of (u.c.) Upper center Guarantee, the following terms are used in this (l.c.) Lower center MEASUREMENTS catalogue, and are defined as follows: As with any description in this catalogue, BEARS SIGNATURE, NICOLAES MAES measurements are qualified statements or opinions FURNITURE AND DECORATIONS In our best judgment, the signature, monogram, and are subject to the Conditions of Sale and initials or other similar indicia of authorship is not Terms of Guarantee. Doyle New York shall not be REGENCY ROSEWOOD SOFA TABLE that of the artist and may have been added at a liable for any mistakes in measurements. First quarter of the 19th century. This heading with later date. Measurements have been made to the best of our the date included means that the piece is, in our ability, and are given in inches to the nearest best judgment, of the period indicated with no DATED 1/4 inch and millimeters, height before width. major alterations or restorations. In our best judgment, the date indicated on the work Unless otherwise indicated, etchings and engravings is the date the work was executed. are measured by the dimensions of the plate REGENCY ROSEWOOD SOFA TABLE marks.Woodcuts, lithographs and silkscreens are This heading without inclusion of a date indicates DATED (FOR BRONZES) measured by the dimensions of the images. that in our best judgment, the piece, while basically In our best judgment, the date indicated when the of the period, has been substantially altered or original model was executed. Since the exact date All pictures are framed unless otherwise noted in this restored and in some cases it may also indicate of the casting of a bronze sculpture is often unknown catalogue. that the piece has been constructed from old parts. and illustrations in reference books may not specify which particular cast is discussed or illustrated, REGENCY STYLE SOFA TABLE it should be pointed out that dates of execution The inclusion of the word “style” in the heading and entries listed under Literature in the individual indicates that, in our opinion, the piece is an catalogue entries do not necessarily refer to the intentional copy or reproduction of an earlier work castings included in the sale. or style of works. PRINTS PAINTINGS NAME OF THE ARTIST NICOLAES MAES Subject to the Conditions of Sale and Terms of In our best judgment the work is by the named Guarantee set forth in this catalogue, and except artist. This is our highest category of authenticity in where stated as being “after” or “attributed to” the present catalogue. an artist, each lot is by the artist appearing at the head of the lot, except in the case of lots containing ATTRIBUTED TO NICOLAES MAES works by more than one artist. In our best judgment, while the work is of the period of the named artist, and on the basis of TITLE style can be ascribed to him, we cannot state with If there is a generally accepted title for the print, certainty that it is by him. that title is given in upper case at the beginning of the lot description. If the work has no title or the SCHOOL OF NICOLAES MAES title is unknown to us, a descriptive title is given in In our best judgment, the work is of the period of brackets. the named artist, by a pupil or close follower of the artist, but is not by the artist. REFERENCES Information from the standard catalogues of the CIRCLE OF NICOLAES MAES artists’ works is cited when possible following the title. In our best judgment, the work is of the period of the named artist and closely related to his style. MEDIUM The mediums are described as fully as possible, MANNER OF NICOLAES MAES OR AFTER although secondary techniques may not be listed. NICOLAES MAES OR FOLLOWER OF NICOLAES MAES DATE In our best judgment, although the work is in the The date given is that of the original plate, block, style of or a copy of a work by the named artist, stone or screen. It is not necessarily the date at it is of a later period. which the impression offered for sale was printed.

EDITION Information regarding the size of the edition is given when possible.

SIGNATURE Only manuscript signatures of the artists are indicated. Signatures “in the plate” are not mentioned since they are considered part of the image.

CONDITIONS OF SALE

1. BINDING TERMS 4. RESERVES 7. PURCHASER’S RESPONSIBILITY The lots listed in this catalogue will be offered by If the auctioneer decides that any opening bid is Title passes upon the fall of the auctioneer’s hammer to Doyle New York as owner or as agent for consignor below the value of the lot offered, the auctioneer the highest acknowledged bidder, subject to the conditions subject to the following terms and conditions. may reject that bid and withdraw the lot from sale; of sale set forth herein. Such bidder there upon assumes Where Doyle is agent, the contract is between and if, having acknowledged an opening bid, he full risk and responsibility there for (including, without seller and buyer. The following Conditions of Sale decides that any advance thereafter is insufficient, limitation, liability for or damage to frames and glass and Terms of Guarantee constitute the entire he may reject that advance. covering prints, paintings or other works). Although in agreement with the purchaser relative to the our discretion we will execute orders or absentee bids property listed in this catalogue. By bidding at Unless otherwise indicated, all lots are offered subject to or accept telephone bids as a convenience to clients auction you agree to be bound by these terms: a reserve, which is the confidential minimum price who are not present at auctions, we are not responsible below which such lot will not be sold. No reserve for any errors or omissions in connection therewith. 2. AS IS will exceed the low estimate of the lot. Reserves are All lots are sold “AS IS” and without recourse and agreed upon with the consignor or, in the absence When making a bid, a bidder is accepting personal liability neither Doyle New York nor its consignor makes any thereof, in the absolute discretion of Doyle New York. to pay the purchase price as follows, unless it has been warranties or representations, express or implied, explicitly agreed in writing with Doyle New York before with respect to such lots, except for the limited Unless otherwise announced by the auctioneer, the commencement of the sale that the bidder is warranties expressly stated in the Terms of Guarantee all bids are per lot as numbered in the catalogue. acting as agent on behalf of an identified third party section of this catalogue. Prospective buyers are strongly acceptable to Doyle New York, and that Doyle New advised to examine personally any property in which Lots marked C preceding the estimate are consigned York will look only to the principal for payment: they are interested, before the auction takes place, to and reserved. Those marked • are reserved property determine its condition, size, and whether or not it in which Doyle New York has an interest. The total purchase price to be paid by purchaser is has been repaired or restored. the amount of the successful bid price plus a Doyle New York on occasion makes loans or premium of 26% on the first $600,000 of the hammer Except as otherwise expressly and specifically provided advances funds to consignors. price of each lot, 21% on the portion of the hammer in the Terms of Guarantee, neither Doyle New York price from $600,001 through $4,000,000, and 15% on nor its consignor makes any express or implied warranty The auctioneer may implement the reserve by opening that portion of the hammer price exceeding or representation of any kind or nature with respect bidding on any lot by placing a bid on behalf of the $4,000,000. Payment of each lot shall be made as follows: to merchantability, fitness for purpose, correctness of seller. The auctioneer will not specifically identify bids the catalogue or other description of the physical placed on behalf of the seller. The auctioneer may A cash deposit of not less than 25% of the purchase price condition, size, quality, rarity, importance, medium, further bid on behalf of the seller, up to the amount (unless the whole purchase price is required at the sole material, genuineness, attribution, provenance, period, of the reserve, by placing successive or consecutive discretion of Doyle New York) will be paid on the day culture, source, origin, exhibitions, literature or historical bids for a lot or by placing bids in response to other of the auction. Deposits shall apply to all purchases significance of any lot sold. The absence of any reference bidders. 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ESTIMATES report to damage or restoration are for guidance Each lot in the catalogue is given a low and high The balance of the purchase price, if any, will be paid not only and should be evaluated by personal inspection estimate representing that range which, in the later than 5 pm one (1) day following the day of the by the bidder or a knowledgeable representative. opinion of Doyle New York, represents a fair and auction. Such payment shall be made in U.S. dollars probable auction value. When possible, the estimate by certified or cashier check drawn on a U.S. bank unless The Terms of Guarantee are controlling, and no is based on previous auction records of comparable other arrangements are made with Doyle New York. statement, whether written or oral, and whether property, condition, rarity, quality and provenances. 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dispute. If any dispute arises after the sale, the Doyle assumes no liability for failing to identify 3. WITHDRAWAL Doyle New York sale record shall be conclusive. materials from endangered or protected species or Doyle New York reserves the right to withdraw for incorrectly identifying such materials. any lot at any time prior to the commencement of bidding for such lot and shall have no liability whatsoever for such withdrawal. CONDITIONS OF SALE CONTINUED

8. REMEDIES AVAILABLE TO DOYLE NEW YORK f) Where several amounts are owed by the buyer 10. DOYLE NEW YORK EMPLOYEES In addition to the other remedies available to us by to us, in respect of different transactions, to apply Employees of Doyle New York are not prohibited law, we reserve the right to impose a late charge any amount paid to discharge any amount owed in from bidding on property. In the course of their of 1 1/2% per month of the total purchase price if respect of any particular transaction, whether or employment it is possible that they may have payment is not made in accordance with the conditions not the buyer so directs; access to information not available to the public. set forth herein. All property must be removed from our premises by the purchaser at their expense not g) To reject at any future auction any bids made by or on behalf of the buyer or to require a deposit later than (2) business days following its sale and, 11. WAIVER OF CONDITIONS if it is not removed, Doyle New York reserves the right from the buyer before accepting any bids; Any and all of these conditions may be waived or to charge a minimum storage fee of $5 per lot per day h) To take such other actions as we deem necessary modified in the sole discretion of Doyle New York. or to deliver the property to a public warehouse for or appropriate; or The Conditions of Sale, Terms of Guarantee, the storage at the purchaser’s expense, to be released glossary, if any, and all other contents of this only after payment in full of all removal, storage, i) To effect any combination thereof. catalogue are subject to amendment by us by oral handling, insurance and any other costs incurred, announcements made during the sale. together with payment of all other amounts due to us. In addition, a defaulting purchaser will be deemed

to have granted and assigned to us a continuing Salesroom notices amend the catalogue description Doyle New York shall have no liability for any security interest of first priority in, and we may retain of a lot after our catalogue has gone to press. damage to property left on its premises for more as collateral security for such purchaser’s obligations They are posted in the viewing galleries and than (2) days following the sale. to us, any property or money of or owing to such salesroom or are announced by the auctioneer. purchaser in our possession. We shall have all of the Please take note of them. If any applicable conditions herein are not complied rights accorded a secured party under the New with by the purchaser, in addition to other remedies York Uniform Commercial Code with respect to such 12. All measurements and weight are approximate. available to us and the consignor by law, including property and we may apply against such Doyle New York is not responsible for damage of without limitation the right to hold the purchaser obligations all monies held or received by us for the glass covering paintings, drawings, other works or liable for the total purchase price, including all fees, account of, or due from us, to such purchaser. At our frames and lamp shades regardless of cause. charges and expenses more fully set forth herein, option, payment will not be deemed to have we shall be entitled in our absolute discretion been made in full until we have collected funds to exercise one or more of the following rights 13. If any part of these Conditions of Sale is found represented by checks, or in the case of bank or or remedies: by any court to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, cashier’s checks, we have confirmed their authenticity. the balance of the conditions shall continue to be In the event the purchaser fails to pay any or all of a) To charge interest at such rate as we shall valid to the fullest extent permitted by law. the total purchaser price for any lot and Doyle reasonably select; New York nonetheless elects to pay the consignor 14. The rights and obligations of the parties with any portion of the sale proceeds, the purchaser b) To hold the defaulting buyer liable for the total respect to these Conditions of Sale and Terms acknowledges that Doyle New York shall have all amount due and to commence legal proceedings for of Guarantee, as well as the purchaser’s and our of the rights of the consignor to pursue the purchaser its recovery together with interest, legal fees and costs respective rights and obligations hereunder, the for any amounts paid to the consignor, whether at to the fullest extent permitted under applicable law; conduct of the auction and any matters connected law, in equity, or under these Conditions of Sale. with any of the foregoing, shall be governed and c) Cancel the sale of that, or any other lot or lots sold interpreted by the laws of the State of New York. to the defaulting purchaser at the same or any other 9. LIMITED LIABILITY By bidding at auction, whether present in person auction, retaining as liquidated damages If for any cause a purchased lot cannot be delivered or by agent, by written bid, telephone or other all payments made by the purchaser; in as good condition as at the time of sale, or should any purchased lot be stolen or mis-delivered or lost means, the buyer shall be deemed to have submitted, d) Resell the property whether at private sale or prior to delivery, Doyle New York shall not be for the benefit of Doyle New York, to the exclusive public auction without reserve, and the purchaser liable for any amount in excess of that paid by the jurisdiction of the federal or state courts located in will be liable for any deficiency, cost, including purchaser. We are not responsible for the acts or the state and county of New York and waives any handling charges, the expenses of both sales, our omissions of carriers or packers of purchased lots, objection to the jurisdiction and venue of any such commission on both sales at our regular rate, all whether or not recommended by us. Packing and court. other charges due hereunder and incidental damages; handling of purchased lots by us is at the entire risk of the purchaser and Doyle New York will have no e) To set off the outstanding amount remaining liability for any loss or damage to such items. unpaid by the buyer against any amounts which we may owe the buyer in any other transactions;

INFORMATION ON SALES AND USE TAX RELATED TO PURCHASES AT AUCTION

To better assist our clients, we have prepared the the state or country in which the purchaser resides or sales tax in effect in the state where the property is following information on Sales and Use Tax related to does business. delivered. property purchased at auction. WHERE DOYLE NEW YORK IS NOT WHERE DOYLE NEW YORKCOLLECTS SALES TAX REQUIRED TO COLLECT SALES TAX WHY DOYLE NEW YORK COLLECTS SALES TAX Doyle New York is currently registered to collect Doyle New York is not required to collect sales tax Virtually all State Sales Tax Laws require a sales tax in the following states: New York and the on property delivered to states other than those corporation to register with the State’s Tax District of Columbia. listed above. If the property is delivered to a state Authorities and collect and remit sales tax if the where Doyle New York is not required to collect corporation maintains a presence within the state, For any property collected or received by the sales tax, it is the responsibility of the purchaser such as offices. In the states that impose sales tax, purchaser in New York City, such property is to self-assess any sales or use tax and remit it to Tax Laws require an auction house, with a presence subject to sales tax at the existing New York State and taxing authorities in that state. in the state, to register as a sales tax collector, and City rate of 8.875%. remit sales taxcollected to the state. New York sales Doyle New York is not required to collect sales tax tax is charged on the hammer price, buyer’s premium If the property is delivered into any of the states in for property delivered to the purchaser outside of the and any other applicable charges on any property which Doyle New York is registered, Doyle New York United States. picked up or delivered in New York, regardless of is required by law to collect and remit the appropriate INFORMATION ON SALES AND USE TAX RELATED TO PURCHASES AT AUCTION (CONTINUED)

Property collected from Doyle New York premises RESTORATION AND OTHER SERVICES dealer may purchase without incurring a tax by common carriers on behalf of the purchaser for liability, and Doyle New York is not required delivery to the purchaser at his address outside Regardless of where the property is subsequently to collect sales tax from such re-seller. The art of New York is not subject to New York Sales Tax. If transported, if any framing or restoration services dealer, when re-selling the property, may be it is delivered by the common carrier to any of the are performed in New York, it is considered to required to charge sales tax to its client, or states where Doyle New York is required to col- be a delivery of the property to the purchaser in the client may be required to self-assess sales or lect sales tax, applicable tax will be added to the use tax upon acquiring the property. purchase price. New York, and Doyle New York will be required to collect the 8.875% New York sales tax. If a not-for-profit or charitable organization is selling WHERE DOYLE NEW YORK IS NOT LOCAL TAX ADVISORS property through Doyle New York, it may be sold REQUIRED TO COLLECT SALES TAX as a tax exempted purchase. The not-for-profit As sales tax laws vary from state to state, seller must be registered with the New York Doyle New York is not required to collect sales Doyle New York recommends that clients with Department of Taxation and Finance as an exempt tax on property delivered to states other than questions regarding the application of sales or organization and the property must be picked up those listed above. If the property is delivered to use taxes to property purchased at auction or delivered in New York. However, a compensating a state where Doyle New York is not required to seek tax advice form their local tax advisors. use tax is due from the buyer if any such lot is shipped collect sales tax, it is the responsibility of the to any of the states where Doyle New York maintains purchaser to self-assess any sales or use tax and CERTAIN EXEMPTIONS offices. It is the buyer’s responsibility to ascertain remit it to taxing authorities in that state. and pay all taxes due. Buyers claiming exemption Most states that impose sales taxes allow for from sales tax must have the appropriate Doyle New York is not required to collect specified exemptions to the tax. For example, documentation on file with Doyle New York prior sales tax for property delivered to the purchaser a registered re-seller such as a registered art to the release of the property. outside of the United States.

TERMS OF GUARANTEE

Doyle New York warrants the authenticity of at its option, to have the purchaser obtain at the ii. any catalogue description where it was specifically authorship of each lot contained in this catalogue purchaser’s expense the opinion of two recognized mentioned that there is a conflict of specialist solely and expressly subject to the terms and experts (approved by Doyle New York) in the field opinion on the authorship of a lot; or conditions set forth below. relating to the item in question, before Doyle New York determines whether to rescind a sale under the iii. authorship which on the date of sale was in 1. DEFINITION OF AUTHORSHIP above warranty. Upon request, Doyle New York accordance with the then generally accepted opinion “Authorship” is defined as the artist, artisan, workshop, will provide the purchaser with the names of of scholars and specialists, despite the subsequent designer, school, period, culture, or source of origin, acceptable experts. discovery of new information, whether historical or as applicable and indicated in the description of physical, concerning the artist or craftsman, his the lot. The warranted information appears in bold 3. NON-ASSIGNABILITY students, school, workshop or followers; or print immediately following the individual lot number; The benefits of this warranty are not assignable and no other language in the catalogue is warranted, shall be applicable only to the original purchaser iv. the identification of periods or dates of execution including any supplemental material which appears of record (i.e., the registered bidder) and not to any which may be proven inaccurate by means of below the bold print headings. Doyle New York subsequent owners (including, without limitation, scientific processes not generally accepted for use is not responsible for any errors or omissions in donees, heirs, successors, beneficiaries or assigns) until after publication of the catalogue, or which any material, which appears below the bold print who have, or may acquire, an interest in any were unreasonably expensive or impractical to use headings. The description of authorship in this purchased property. The original buyer must have at the time of publication of the catalogue. catalogue may be amended by a supplement to the remained the owner of the lot without disposing catalogue, or by notices or announcements at the of any interest in it to any third party. The term counterfeit is defined as a modern fake or time and place of the auction sale. forgery, made less than fifty years ago, and made with 4. SOLE REMEDY the intent to deceive. The authenticity of signatures, This catalogue may contain one or more glossaries The purchaser agrees that in the case of a breach of monograms, initials or other similar indications of explaining the terminology used in the catalogue. warranty under these Terms of Guarantee, he shall authorship is expressly excluded as a controlling All terminology used in this catalogue, including have no remedy other than rescission of the sale and factor in determining whether a work is a counterfeit the contents of the glossaries, are merely qualified the refund of the original purchase price paid. under the meaning of this Terms of Warranty. statements or opinions and are not intended or The original purchase price paid is defined as the made as warranted statements or representations amount of the successful bid price, plus the buyer’s 6. LIMITED WARRANTY under these Terms of Guarantee. Doyle New York premium. No rescission and refund will be made As stated in paragraph 2 of the Conditions of Sale, makes no warranties whatsoever, express or implied, unless the item is returned to Doyle New York at neither Doyle New York nor its consignor makes any with respect to any material in the catalogue, 175 East 87th Street, New York, NY 10128, in the express or implied representations or warranties except as set forth in bold print headings following same condition as at the time of sale. The remedy whatsoever concerning any property in the catalogue, individual lot numbers in this catalogue and subject of rescission and refund is exclusive and the including without limitation, any warranty of to the exclusions set forth below. purchaser waives any other remedy which may be merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, otherwise available in law or equity. Doyle New except as specifically and expressly provided in 2. COVERAGE UNDER THE GUARANTEE York shall not be liable for any special, consequential these Terms of Guarantee. Subject to the exclusions set forth below in or incidental damages incurred or claimed including, paragraphs 5 and 6, Doyle New York warrants the without limitation, loss of profits or for interest. LOCAL TAX ADVISORS authorship (as that term is defined above) of each lot in this catalogue for a period of five years from 5. EXCLUSIONS As sales tax laws vary from state to state, Doyle the date of the sale of the lot. This warranty does not apply to: New York recommends that clients with questions regarding the application of sales or use taxes to The guarantee is made only to the original purchaser i. authorship of any paintings, drawings or sculpture property purchased at auction seek tax advice of record at the auction, and only the registered created prior to 1870, unless the lot is determined form their local tax advisors. bidder for the lot at the auction will be considered to be a counterfeit which has a value at the date of as the original purchaser. The buyer must give the claim for rescission which is materially less written notice of claim within five years from the than the purchase price paid for the lot; or date of the auction. Doyle New York may require, BUYING AT DOYLE

Since 1963, Doyle New York has built a worldwide BIDDING AT AUCTION ABSENTEE BIDDING reputation for expertise, integrity and service. In our For buyers unable to participate live in the salesroom New York salesrooms, we hold approximately forty Auctions are open to the public without any admission or on the telephone, Doyle offers the option of Ab- auctions annually featuring fine art, jewelry, furniture, fee or obligation to bid. Pre-auction viewings are sentee Bids. Absentee Bids work exactly as if decorative arts, books, prints, couture and a variety open to the public free of charge. Doyle New York’s the bidder were in the salesroom bidding up to a of other categories. Our global audience of buyers specialists are available to give advice and condition predetermined price limit, except that the price and sellers know the quality of our sales and reports at viewings or by appointment. The auctioneer limit is given confidentially to Doyle ahead of time. appreciate our standard of service. If you are new introduces the objects for sale - known as “lots” - Absentee Bid Forms are available on our Web site, to the auction process, please take a moment to in numerical order as listed in the catalogue. in our printed catalogues, and through our Client review the following information. The auctioneer accepts bids from those present in Services Department. Return the completed Absentee the salesroom, from telephone bidders, from Internet Bid Form to Doyle New York either by mail or by The following will help in understanding the auction bidders or by absentee written bids left with Doyle fax. When the lot that you are interested in comes buying process. All bidders should read the New York in advance of the auction. up for sale, a Doyle New York representative will Conditions of Sale and Terms of Guarantee in execute the bid on your behalf, making every effort this catalogue, as well as the Glossary or any other LIVE BIDDING to purchase the item for as little as possible and notices. By bidding at auction, bidders are bound The most exciting way to participate at auction is the never exceeding your limit. The auctioneer may by the Conditions of Sale and Terms of Guarantee, traditional method of bidding live in the salesroom execute absentee bids directly from the rostrum, as amended by oral announcements or posted with an auction paddle. Buyers who would like to bid identifying these as “absentee bids,” “book bids,” notices, which together form the sale contract may register for a paddle on the day of the sale upon or “order bids.” This service is free and confidential. between the successful bidder (purchaser), entering the salesroom at least 30 minutes before For detailed instructions and information, please see Doyle New York and the seller (consignor) of the lot. the sale. The paddle is numbered so as to identify you the Doyle New York Absentee Bid Form at the to the auctioneer. To register, you will need a form back of this catalogue or on our Web site. In the of identification such as a driver’s license or credit event that identical bids are submitted, the earliest will BEFORE YOU BID card. If you are a first-time bidder, you will also be take precedence. asked for your address, phone number and signature Doyle New York produces both printed and Internet and a bank reference in order to create your account. INTERNET ABSENTEE BIDS auction catalogues that contain descriptions of To avoid any delay in the release of purchases, Buyers may also conveniently leave bids on our the property being offered and the presale please pre-arrange check or credit approval through Web site through our Internet catalogues. These bids estimates and are available prior to the sale date. Doyle New York’s Credit Department at 212-427-4141 are executed at the auction in the same fashion as Our free Internet catalogues, available at Doyle.com, ext. 205. If you are bidding for someone else, you will an Absentee Bid. also provide illustrations, direct communication need to provide a letter from that person authorizing with our specialists, and the ability to leave online you to bid on that person’s behalf. Issuance of a bid LIVE ONLINE BIDDING absentee bids and track lots. The catalogues will paddle is in Doyle New York’s sole discretion. BidLive! with a click of your mouse. Bidders from help familiarize you with property being offered at around the world now can experience the excitement the designated auction. Once the first bid has been placed, the auctioneer of bidding live at Doyle on their computers. asks for higher bids, in increments determined by In addition, Doyle.com offers a free Internet the auctioneer. To place your bid, simply raise your MAC USERS: Please use Firefox browser (download). Personal Shopper that allows collectors to enter paddle until the auctioneer acknowledges you. BidLive!, powered by Invaluable, does not support keywords of objects they are seeking. As each iPhone or iPad at this time. Internet auction catalogue is posted online, the As a courtesy to bidders, a currency board may be collector is notified by email of any matches. operated. It displays the lot number and current bid Doyle New York does not guarantee that live Internet in both U.S. dollars and foreign currency. Exchange bidding will be uninterrupted or without error, or that A prospective buyer must complete and sign a rates are approximations based on recent exchange Internet bids will be received. registration form and provide identification before rate information and should not be relied upon as bidding. We may require the production of bank or a precise invoice amount. Doyle New York assumes other financial references. no responsibility for any error or omission in foreign or United States currency amounts shown. PROVENANCE In certain circumstances, Doyle New York may TELEPHONE BIDDING print in the catalogue the history of ownership Clients unable to attend the sale may still participate of a work of art if such information contributes live by bidding on the telephone with a trained staff to scholarship or is otherwise well known and member on the auction floor. The Telephone Bid Forms assists in distinguishing the work of art. However, the are available on our Web site, in our printed catalogue, identity of the seller or previous owners may not be and through our Client Services Department. Please disclosed for a variety of reasons. For example, contact the Bid Department prior to the sale to make such information may be excluded to accommodate arrangements or to answer any questions you may a seller’s request for confidentiality or because the have. Telephone bids are accepted only at Doyle identity of prior owners is unknown given the age of New York’s discretion and at the caller’s risk. Calls the work of art. may also be recorded at Doyle New York’s discretion. By bidding on the telephone, prospective buyers SPECIALIST’S ADVICE consent thereto. Telephone bids cannot be accepted Prospective bidders may be interested in for lot estimated below $1,000. Arrangements must specific information not included in the catalogue be confirmed with the Bid Department at least description of a lot. For additional information 24 hours prior to the auction at 212-427-4141 ext. 242. please contact either a Doyle New York specialist or Arrangements to bid in languages other than Doyle New York’s Client Services Department. You English must be made well in advance of the sale may also request a condition report from the special- date. Doyle New York offers all absentee and ist in charge. telephone bidding services as a convenience to our clients but will not be responsible for errors or failures to execute bids.

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SUCCESSFUL BIDS To pay for a purchase by check, please see our at the purchaser’s risk and subject to storage charges cashier and fill out a Check Acceptance Account at the purchaser’s expense. As transferred property Successful absentee bidders will be notified after form. Until approved, you will not be permitted will no longer be in Doyle New York’s custody or the sale. Absentee bidders will receive a list of sale to remove purchases before the check has cleared. care, Doyle New York will not be able to assist you results if they enclose a stamped self-addressed To avoid delivery delays, prospective buyers are en- with pick-up or shipping arrangements. To avoid envelope with their Absentee Bid Form. Printed lists couraged to supply bank or other suitable references storage charges, please arrange for the removal of of auction prices are available immediately after before the auction. Check acceptance privileges are your purchases as soon as possible. the sale on our Web site and at our galleries. While reviewed from time to time by Doyle New York and invoices are sent out by mail after the auction, we may be granted or withdrawn at our sole discretion. do not accept responsibility for notifying you of the Checks should be made payable to Doyle New York. Please Note: Transfer to a Storage facility of result of your bids. Buyers are requested to contact Note that checks drawn on foreign banks may be ac- uncollected purchases past the 31-day grace period us by telephone or in person as soon as possible cepted with the approval of the Credit Department, will constitute delivery of the property to the buyer after the sale to obtain details of the outcome may not be accepted for values under $500, and in New York State. As a result, buyer will be liable to of their bids to avoid incurring unnecessary that there is a $100 minimum collection charge on pay New York State Sales Tax if not tax-exempt. storage charges. checks drawn on foreign banks located outside the U.S. Certified checks, banker’s drafts and cashier’s The charges are payable to an outside Storage checks are accepted at Doyle New York’s discretion Company and therefore cannot be waived by Doyle AFTER THE AUCTION provided they are issued by a reputable financial New York. We encourage all buyers to institution governed by anti-money laundering laws. collect purchased property within two business days If your bid is successful, you can go directly to Instruments not meeting these requirements will following the sale. Purchaser Accounting to make payment be treatedas “cash equivalents” and subject to the arrangements. Otherwise, your invoice will be mailed constraints noted above. In order to collect property from Yorkville Van and to you. The final price is determined by adding the Storage, buyers must present a copy of a paid buyer’s premium to the hammer price on a per-lot Please direct inquiries regarding wire transfer invoice bearing a Yorkville warehouse release stamp. basis. Sales tax, where applicable, will be charged or ACH credit to Steven L. Kuzio, 212.427.4141 This warehouse release stamp can only be obtained on the entire amount. Payment is due in full ext. 202, [email protected] from the cashier at Doyle New York’s main reception immediately after the sale. However, under certain desk located at 175 East 87th St in Manhattan. circumstances, and generally with the seller’s BUYER’S PREMIUM agreement, Doyle New York may offer buyers it The invoice will include the successful hammer price SHIPPING deems creditworthy the option of an extended of the item and the buyer’s premium. Shipping is the responsibility of the buyer. payment plan. Credit terms should be arranged prior Doyle New York charges a premium to the buyer on Upon request, our Client Services Department will to the sale. Please contact the Credit Department for the final bid price of each lot sold at the following provide a list of shippers who deliver to destinations information on credit rates: 26% on the first $600,000 of the hammer within the United States and overseas. Kindly disregard arrangements for a particular lot. price of each lot, 21% on the portion of the hammer the sales tax if an I.C.C. licensed shipper will ship price from $600,001 through $4,000,000, and 15% your purchases anywhere outside the state of New METHODS OF PAYMENT on that portion of the hammer price exceeding York or the District of Columbia. Accepted forms of payment include bank wire $4,000,000. Applicable sales tax will also be added transfers, cash (in US currency up to $5,000), to the final total. New York Sales tax is charged on ENDANGERED SPECIES traveler’s check (in US currency up to $5,000), money the hammer price, buyer’s premium and any other Certain property sold at auction, for example, orders (in US currency up to $5,000), or personal applicable charges on any property picked up or items made of or incorporating plant or animal check made payable in US dollars drawn on a US delivered in New York State, regardless of the state materials such as coral, crocodile, ivory, whalebone, bank, unless other arrangements are made with or country in which the purchaser resides or does tortoise shell, mother-of-pearl, etc., irrespective of Purchaser Accounts. It is Doyle New York’s policy business. Please refer to “Information on Sales and age or value, may require a license or certificate to request any new clients or purchasers preferring Use Tax Related to Purchases at Auction” in the back prior to exportation and additional licenses or to make a cash payment to provide: verification of of the catalogue. All sales are final and subject to the certificates upon importation to another country. identity (by providing some form of government Conditions of Sale. Doyle New York suggests that buyers check on issued identification containing a photograph, their government wildlife import requirements such as a passport, identity card, or driver’s license), PICK-UPS prior to placing a bid. Although licenses can be confirmation of permanent address and Once your payment has been cleared, property obtained to export some types of endangered identification of the source of the funds. Invoices may be released. Unless otherwise agreed by Doyle species, other types may not be exported at all, and greater than $5,000 require payment by certified New York, auction purchases should be paid for other types may not be resold in the United States. check, bank check or wire transfer. Credit cards are and picked up at Doyle New York within 48 hours not accepted for payment of auction purchases. of the auction. Items left beyond the 48 hours may be subject to a storage fee (see below). Please note that the hours for removal of property are Monday through Friday from 8:15am until 4:45pm, except on auction days during which only purchases made that day may be picked up. As a courtesy to purchasers who come to Doyle New York to pick up property, Doyle New York will assist in the packing of lots, although Doyle New York may, in the case of fragile articles, choose not to pack or otherwise handle a purchase. Doyle New York will not be responsible or liable for damage to glass covering paintings, draw- ings or other works, or damage to frames, regardless of cause.

STORAGE FEES Pursuant to section 8 of our Conditions of Sale, we request that successful buyers collect their property within two business days following the sale. Should the property (except jewelry, coins, stamps or as announced by the auctioneer) remain on our premises for more than 31 days following a sale it will be transferred to an independent warehouse on the buyer’s behalf

VI SELLING AT DOYLE

At Doyle New York, we commit our expertise, REGIONAL APPRAISAL DAYS PAYMENT TO CONSIGNORS experience, market knowledge and global Doyle New York’s Regional Representatives host Payment to consignors is mailed five weeks after outreach to every sale. The numerous auction free appraisal days on a regular basis throughout the date of the sale, together with a final settlement records set in our salesrooms are testimony to the Connecticut, the metropolitan Washington, DC statement. The amount of payment is the hammer advantages of selling property at Doyle. To make the area, as well as in other areas throughout the price of each lot successfully sold, less the auction process as easy and convenient as possible, United States. These popular events provide ease commission and any other fees. our team of dedicated professionals will guide you and convenience for collectors outside of New York through the entire appraisal and auction procedure. who wish to sell their property at Doyle. At these As part of our commitment to providing comprehensive events, we accept property for upcoming auctions ESTATE AND auction services to collectors, institutions and estates, in our New York salesrooms through both APPRAISAL SERVICES Doyle New York offers several options to those seeking consignment and outright purchase. to sell their property: consignment of the objects For forty years, Doyle New York’s Appraisal and to auction at Doyle, outright sale of the objects to Auction Services Department has worked with Doyle, a combination of both, or referrals to SELLING YOUR PROPERTY museums, corporate collections, banks and law other organizations. firms, trust and estate professionals, heirs, and CONSIGNING TO AUCTION private clients across the nation providing our In consigning property to auction, the seller retains comprehensive appraisal and auction services. OBTAINING AN APPRAISAL ownership until the successful sale of the item at Our thorough, well-researched fair market appraisals auction. When property is consigned to Doyle for have earned Doyle a solid reputation for The first step in selling property at auction is to auction, we devote the expertise of our specialists professionalism, integrity and service throughout the obtain a free informal appraisal of the item. The and professional staff to achieving outstanding United States. appraisal includes an estimated value, which is the prices at auction. specialist’s best judgement as to what the object Doyle New York offers a full range of expert will sell for at auction. The figure is based upon the THE CONSIGNMENT CONTRACT appraisal services, specializing in providing timely specialist’s expertise and knowledge of what similar When you consign property to Doyle New York formal appraisals for estate tax and probate items are fetching in the current auction market. you will receive two copies of our Consignment purposes. Our expert team of specialists and our Agreement, the legal document delineating the professional staff bring years of experience to each There are various ways to obtain appraisals. terms of sale. One copy should be initialed, signed appraisal. Full color digital photographs may be Information and appointments to view property and returned; the other kept for your records. included in the appraisal in order to make each in your home or in the gallery can be arranged Once the property is received in our gallery, you will object easily identifiable. Depending on the through our Scheduling Department, an appropriate be sent a Contract Schedule listing the property, the location, we are happy to provide, at no charge, Specialist Department, or a Doyle New York planned sale dates, the estimated price ranges, a preliminary walk-through examination to Regional Representative. Once your property has and the reserves will be listed, along with the determine approximate costs and special needs. been evaluated, Doyle New York representatives can agreed upon seller’s commission and other Appraisal fees are based on the scope of the then help you determine how to proceed with related fees. property with travel expenses additional. the auction process. They will provide information regarding sellers’ commission rates and other RESERVE PRICE Doyle New York will prepare a customized proposal charges, auction timetable, shipping and any other Before an item is offered at auction, the consignor tailored to the specific property under consideration further services you may require. and Doyle New York may agree on a reserve price, for auction, including a commission and fee a confidential minimum selling price. Unless a structure developed to maximize returns to consignors. SUBMITTING PHOTOGRAPHS specific reserve is arranged, a discretionary reserve We may also make an outright purchase offer on We welcome photographs of property to evaluate is fixed at fifty percent of the low estimate. If the individual items or entire estates. As part of our for possible auction if the property is not portable, consignor designates a reserve on a lot, and it focus on comprehensive estate liquidation, or if you are not able to visit our galleries. If you remains unsold, there will be a buy-in fee charged we offer our unique “Broomclean Service” – our own have a large collection, a representative selection on the reserve price. trucks and crew will transport the fine property to of photographs is acceptable. Please bring in the Doyle, remove remaining items, and leave the photographs or email photos of your objects to OUTRIGHT SALE TO DOYLE premises “broomclean.” the Scheduling Department. You may also mail Outright purchase of property by Doyle allows the photographs to the Scheduling Department, or seller the advantage and convenience of immediate call them at 212-427-4141, ext. 260, to discuss payment. Many sellers prefer this method of sale INFORMATION your property and perhaps arrange an appointment rather than consigning their property to auction with a specialist. Please be sure to include the and awaiting payment after the successful sale of For more information please call 212-427-4141, dimensions, artist’s signature or maker’s mark, the items. For further information please contact our ext 260, or email [email protected]. For estate and medium, physical condition, and any other relevant Scheduling Department. appraisal services, please contact our Appraisal and information. Our specialists will provide a free Auction Services Department at 212-427-4141, preliminary auction estimate subject to a final ext. 227. estimate upon first hand inspection. AFTER THE AUCTION

RESULTS OF SALE You may track realized prices of your consigned property in real time and view all sales results online at Doyle.com. A preliminary settlement statement itemizing the hammer prices, commissions and fees is mailed to the consignor after the auction. You may also call us at 212-427-2730 for prices realized.