Premier Auction - Session II - February 4, 2023
Sat, Feb 4, 2023 09:00AM EST
Lot 768
Two Chinese Export Armorial Porcelain Bowls, Aylmer and Swete
Estimate: $300 - $500
Bid Increments
| Price | Bid Increment |
|---|---|
| $0 | $25 |
| $100 | $50 |
| $1,000 | $100 |
| $2,000 | $200 |
| $3,000 | $250 |
| $5,000 | $500 |
| $10,000 | $1,000 |
| $20,000 | $2,000 |
| $50,000 | $5,000 |
| $100,000 | $10,000 |
comprising: circa 1745, slop bowl with coat of Aylmer impaling Hill, lozenge form for a widow, Aylmer on left side black cross dividing four sea aylets, impaling Hill on right side centered with white chevron, dividing three gilt wheat sheafs, interior bowl with spearhead gilt border, 5-3/4 in.; circa 1795, tea bowl with arms of Swete, two gilt chevrons dividing two gilt stars and rose, surmounted with the crest gilt star flanked by two gillyflowers, opposing side with cobalt and gilt floral spray, cobalt and gilt border, 3-1/2 in.
Note: Aylmer impaling Hill: "The family of Aylmer was eminent in Ireland from the sixteenth century, and although the coat of the present Baron Aylmer (created 1718) and the present baronet (created 1622) are the same as those on this porcelain, this service was not made for any known descendant of the 1st Baron or 1st Baronet. Branches of the same family were seated in other parts of Ireland, and at Walworth Castle in Co. Durham in the nineteenth century, and in Essex.
There is an account of the family of Hill of Poundsford, Somerset, in Visitations of Somerset 1623 with Continuations by R. Mundy published privately 1838."
Chinese Armorial Porcelain Volume I, David S. Howard, Faber & Faber, 31 May 1974, p. 500.
Swete: "In the reign of Edward VI this family was recorded as living at Trayne, near Modbury in Devon, but more recently at Oxton in the same county. The service was probably made for the Revd. John Swete of Oxton House, whose second son, the Revd. William Swete, married about 1820 Mary Anne, daughter of David Gordon of London and Abergeldie in Aberdeen, and whose fifth daughter Caroline married, in August 1820, Michael Francis Gordon of Abergeldie Castle (brother of Mary Anne)."
Chinese Armorial Porcelain Volume I, David S. Howard, Faber & Faber, 31 May 1974, p. 745.
Provenance: Heirloom & Howard, Ltd., UK; Christopher M. Weld, Essex, Massachusetts
Condition
each with spotting, scratching, discoloration, anomalies (as made), chipping to foot ring, labels to base, wear to gilt and paint decoration; slop bowl does not fluoresce under black light; tea bowl fluoresces and reveals six hairline cracks and in-painting on rim
