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FIRST DAY’S SALE TUESDAY 29th JANUARY 2013 THE TRYHORN COLLECTION Commencing at 12.30pm The Tryhorn Collection will be on view on: Saturday 26th January 9.00am to 1.00pm Sunday 27th January 2.00pm to 4.00pm Monday 28th January 9.00am to 5.15pm Limited viewing on sale day Enquiries: Andrew Thomas Enquiries: Nic Saintey Tel: 01392 413100 Tel: 01392 413100 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] The Tryhorn Collection The collection of the late Donald Tryhorn of Kingsbridge in Devon. Comprising 154 lots was accumulated with almost curatorial care over a period of 30 years. Although a private man, he was a regular face in both provincial and national auction rooms, indeed the collection includes a number of pieces acquired from the dispersal of other major collections. He was also an active buyer from many of the most recognised dealers of 18th century porcelain who no doubt will be keen to repatriate the odd ‘old friend’. He kept at least a dozen notebooks in which he recorded and cross referenced his acquisitions and in addition recorded the details of other pieces of interest that he had come across in salerooms but was unable to purchase at the time. These note and scrapbooks were almost constantly updated and annotated when new information came to light or when he perceived a previously overlooked characteristic. Donald Tryhorn’s collection has several main themes but primarily his passion was for Bow porcelain which is reflected in the fact that nearly a quarter of the lots in the collection are from that factory and range from simple tea bowls and large mugs through to desirable bottle vases. He was also keen on ‘early’ Continental porcelain and there are nearly 20 pieces of St. Cloud and Chantilly porcelain, the most striking being a tureen, cover and stand (lot 119). The collection has a Kakiemon thread running through it which includes a number of Japanese prototypes suitably accompanied by the aforementioned French and Bow porcelain but also with examples from the Chelsea and Worcester factories. Donald Tryhorn also had a soft spot for Longton Hall, the earliest Staffordshire porcelain factory, evidenced by having acquired 11 pieces and as a Westcountry resident there are 15 pieces of Plymouth and Bristol porcelain. He patently couldn’t resist an oddity or something that didn’t quite fit with the broad themes of his collection, especially if he happened to be in the right place at the right time and curiosity had got the better of him. In addition, works of art, silver, pictures and furniture from the Tryhorn Collection are included in the second and third days of the Sale. 4 The Tryhorn Collection of 18th century porcelain ENGLISH PORCELAIN Bow Lots 1 – 39 Bristol and Plymouth Lots 40 – 55 Chelsea Lots 56 – 61 Derby Lots 62 – 64 Liverpool Lots 65 – 69 Longton Hall Lots 70 – 81 Worcester Lots 82 – 103 Other including pottery Lots 104 – 111 EUROPEAN PORCELAIN Chantilly Lots 112 – 125 Meissen Lots 126 – 128 St Cloud Lots 129 – 133 Other including Oriental Lots 134 – 154 5 4 2 1 5 1 . A Bow figure of a monk wearing a black and pink robe, seated on a stool reading a large Bible, a rosary at his feet, circa 1760 - 65, 11cm high, two chips to robe, some discolouration. £200-£300. 2 . A Bow figure of a nun wearing a black, green and pink habit and headdress, holding a cross, on mound base with scroll feet, circa 1765, 15 cm high, restoration to hands and cross. £100-£150. 3 . A Bow bottle vase the spherical body with slender neck and everted rim, painted in the Kakiemon style with a young woman wearing blue robes, flowering branches and sprays above a banded hedge, faint 56 mark, circa 1755, 18.5 cm high, chips to footrim. £1000-£2000 * Provenance: With Albert Amor 4 . A Bow blue and white coffee cup painted with the ‘Desirable Residence’ or ‘Telegraph Pole’ pattern, circa 1765, 5.7 cm high. £100-£150. * Provenance: Susi & Ian Sutherland Collection 5 . A Bow blue and white pickle dish of vine leaf form painted with bamboo, peony, an angled fence and rockwork, workman’s mark, circa 1755 - 60, 9.5 cm wide, small repair to rim. £100-£150. 3 6 6 7 9 6 . 7 . A Bow teabowl of quadrilobed form , painted A Bow coffee can with grooved loop handle with scattered flowers outlined in black in the painted in colours with sprays and sprigs of Kakiemon palette, circa 1750, 4.7 cm high, 7.3 European flowers below an iron red loop line cm wide, rim chip. and dot band, circa 1760 - 65, 6.5 cm high, £100-£200. some rubbing, chip to footrim. £60-£80. 8 . A Bow bottle vase the pear-shaped body with slender neck, painted in the Kakiemon palette with chrysanthemum and other flowers and foliage below a turquoise diaper rim hung with iron red foliage, circa 1755, 13.5 cm. high £1000-£2000. * Provenance: The Dawnay and Albrecht Collections. With Albert Amor. 9 . A Bow coffee cup painted in famille rose colours with Oriental flowers and foliage, circa 1755 - 60, 6 cm high. £100-£150. 10 . A Bow coffee can with shaped handle, painted in famille rose style with oriental flowers, foliage and rockwork, circa 1755 - 60, 5.8 cm high, cracks to rim. £60-£80. 8 10 7 11 12 11 . 12 . A Bow coffee can of tapering cylindrical form A Bow teabowl and saucer painted in famille with angular handle applied with prunus sprigs rose colours with peony, a willow tree and and painted in famille rose style with flowers rockwork, the saucer rim with a foliate and and foliage beneath a green diaper band, circa diaper band, circa 1750 -55, saucer 11.7 cm 1750, 5.5 cm high, minor discolouration. diameter. £300-£500. £300-£400. * Provenance: With Roderick Jellicoe * Provenance: With Stockspring Antiques 13 14 13 . 14 . A Bow creamboat of fluted oval form with A Bow octagonal plate painted in bright angular handle, painted in pink, green and enamels with an insect, peony and rockwork, blue enamels with peony, other flowers and circa 1755 - 60, 21.5 cm diameter, firing rockwork, the inner rim with a floral and green damage. diaper band, circa 1755, 14.5 cm long. £200-£300 £300-£500. * Provenance: E. & J. Handley Collection. No. 132 English Ceramic Circle 1948 15 . A Bow saucer dish painted in underglaze blue, iron-red, black and gilt with trailing vines, circa 1754 - 56, 25 cm diameter, some rubbing and discoloured restoration; and a similar teabowl and saucer, both with black numeral 10 marks, saucer 11.8 cm diameter, chip to saucer, teabowl damaged with lacquer repairs. (3) £100-£200. 15 8 16 . A Bow vase of tapering oviform, painted in famille rose colours with flowering shrubs, insects and rockwork, the neck with a band of half- flowerheads between diaper panels, incised line mark to base, circa 1750 - 52, 16.5 cm high, cracks to body and neck. £600-£800. 17 . A Bow blue and white sauceboat of fluted wedge shape with scroll handle, painted with the ‘Desirable Residence’ pattern, circa 1755 - 60, 14 cm, faint hair crack, restored chip to lip. £100-£150 * Provenance: Susi and Ian Sutherland Collection 18 . A Bow teabowl of circular fluted form, painted with a floral bouquet, scattered sprays and an insect, the rim interior with a band of iron red and gilt foliage, circa 1760, 8 cm diameter, some discolouration and glaze damage. 16 £80-£120. 17 18 19 19 . A Bow coffee can painted in the Kakiemon manner with the ‘Two Quails’ pattern of two birds below flowering prunus, circa 1760, 6 cm high, tiny chips and flake to rim. £100-£150. 20 . A Bow coffee can painted in the famille rose palette with flowering plants, circa 1760, 6 cm high, cracked. £50-£70. 20 9 21 22 23 21 . A Bow coffee cup painted in the Kakiemon palette with the ‘Two Quail’ pattern, circa 1755, 5.5 cm high, three short discoloured cracks to rim, footrim discoloured. £80-£120. 22 . A Bow leaf-shaped dish with stalk handle, the underside moulded with veins, painted in enamel colours with a central bouquet of flowers surrounded by floral sprigs and foliage, the rim with iron red and gilt band of scrolling foliage, circa 1756 - 60, 18 cm wide, hair crack to rim, restored rim chip and minor rubbing near handle. £300-£400. 23 . 24 A Bow shaped shallow bowl decorated in the Kakiemon palette with two quails, a flowering 24 . prunus tree, flowers, foliage and insects, the A Bow white figure of a street pretzel seller rim with an iron red and gilt border of scrolling after the Meissen original by F. Reinicke, the foliage, workman’s mark, circa 1760, 23.5 cm, lady wearing a flowing cloak and holding her rim cracked, minor chips. basket of wares, on mound base, circa 1755-60, £300-£400. 14cm. high, some restoration £500-£700. 10 25 26 27 25 . A Bow small sparrow beak cream jug painted in blue with a pagoda, rockwork and foliage, the reverse with a building on an island, circa 1752 - 54, 6.5 cm high, tiny chip to lip, slight firing damage to footrim. £400-£600. 26 . A Bow blue and white plate painted with a central scroll panel of flowers, rockwork and a fence, the outer well and rim with Buddhist emblems and flowering branches, diamond pattern rim, circa 1750 - 55, 22.7 cm diameter, small discoloured rim chip. 28 £200-£300.
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