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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 98

Three Chinese Export Porcelain Table Objects

Estimate: $700 - $1,000
Starting Bid
$350

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Qianlong period, comprising: Famille Rose bulbous lidded teapot, Rose Mandarin rectangular platter with canted corners, both with figural decoration, shaped tureen lid, pomegranate finial, monogrammed, platter 16-3/8 x 13 in.  

Provenance: According to consignor notes, teapot purchased from Langston's Antiques, Wilson, North Carolina, November 1984 for $210; tureen lid purchased from Boone's Antiques in Wilson, North Carolina, May 12, 1990, for $294.25; Collection of JoAnn and Whit Whitley, North Carolina

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According to consignor notes, teapot purchased from Langston's Antiques, Wilson, North Carolina, November 1984 for $210; tureen lid purchased from Boone's Antiques in Wilson, North Carolina, May 12, 1990, for $294.25; Collection of JoAnn and Whit Whitley, North Carolina

teapot with amateur repairs to lid, wear to gilt, primarily to handle, finial, and spout, pinholes and firing flaws, areas of discoloration and possible repair to body, labels and felt pads to base and lid; platter with break and staple repair to one canted corner, approx. 4-1/2 in. length, regilding to border, wear and scratching to painted scene, discoloration, pinholes, firing flaws; labels and felt pads to base; tureen lid with loss to gilding, discoloration, pinholes, spider crack to interior lid