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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 47

Four Small Chinese Export Armorial Porcelain Dishes, D'Aguilar, Hornyold, Beckford, and Sandys

Estimate: $500 - $700
Starting Bid
$250

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comprising: circa 1770, enamel and gilt border and floral elements centering coat of arms for d'Aguilar impaling Lousada, 5 x 6-1/4 in.; circa 1780, blue and white border centering coat of arms for Hornyold, 1-1/8 x 6 in. diameter; circa 1775, enamel and gilt crest, arms and border centering coat of arms for Beckford, 3/4 x 6 in. diameter; circa 1790, enamel and gilt border centering coat of arms for Sandys, 1 x 6 x 7-7/8 in. 

Provenance: (Beckford and Hornyold) Henry Moog Antiques, Atlanta, Georgia (labels); (d'Aguilar) Christie's New York (label); Collection of JoAnn and Whit Whitley, North Carolina

Note: Similar examples pictured in David Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, Volume I, pgs. 425, 557, and 770. and David Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, Volume II, p. 435.

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(Beckford and Hornyold) Henry Moog Antiques, Atlanta, Georgia (labels); (d'Aguilar) Christie's New York (label); Collection of JoAnn and Whit Whitley, North Carolina

anomalies and pinholes, some loss to enamel and gilt, wear to bases, surface dirt and accretion; d'Aguilar with small area of chipping and retouch at border; Hornyold with one hairline to rim; Beckford with one hairline and several areas of chipping to rim; Sandys in good overall condition.