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Whitley Collection, Featuring Chinese Export, Furniture, and Fine Art | October 29, 2024

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An impressive lifetime collection with over 400 pieces of Chinese Export porcelain including 50 armorials, a rare figure of a Jewish Lady with Christie’s provenance, 100+ blue & white pieces including Kangxi, Qianlong, Kraak, & Ming transitional pieces, purchased from reputable dealers in the UK & US; period furniture from North Carolina, Virginia, Philadelphia, & New England; over 40 tea caddies; Fine Art including 18th & 19th century British portraits; silver flatware; Tiffany kettle on stand; Oriental rugs
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Lot 31

Attributed to Thomas Hudson, Anne Sanford (nee Chichester)

Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000
Starting Bid
$1,500

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(British, 1701-1779)

Three quarter portrait of a woman in white gown, pearl jewelry, inscribed on label verso "Anne Sanford/wife of William Sanford/daughter of J Chisholm baronet of Raleigh by Hudson", oil on canvas, 50 x 40-3/8 in.; carved and giltwood Louis XIII type English frame with acorn and leaf garland decoration, 58 x 50 x 3 in.

Provenance: Presumed by descent in the Sanford family; Four Seasons Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, 2006; Collection of JoAnn and Whit Whitley, North Carolina

Note: Anne Chichester (born 1719) was the daughter of Sir John Chichester, 4th Baronet Chichester of Raleigh (1688-1740). She married William Sanford of Nynehead, Somerset (born circa 1719). A group of six of the Sanford family portraits descended in the family and were stored in Roswell, Georgia. This portrait was sold by Four Seasons Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, June 29, 2006.

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Presumed by descent in the Sanford family; Four Seasons Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, 2006; Collection of JoAnn and Whit Whitley, North Carolina

crackle, cupping, restretched on older stretcher, lined on wax and linen, retouch; wear and losses to frame commensurate with age