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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE GEORGE FRANCIS WARRE, CBE SOLD ON BEHALF OF A DIRECT DESCENDANT (Lots 377 - 387) George Warre was born in Oporto on 19 April 1876, and was the third generation of the famous port-producing Warre family to have been born in Portugal. It was probably Captain Annesley Tyndale of Hove, Sussex, a keen collector of Chinese ceramics and hardstones, who introduced George Warre to the field of Chinese art. Tyndale was a close family friend and, according to the family, adopted the Warre name. Remarkably, two black notebooks, meticulously recording each purchase made from 27 November 1913 until 20 May 1936, are still in the possession of the family, and it is from these notebooks that we have been able to provide provenance for some of the pieces. Each of the purchases listed in the 'black books' provide date of purchase, details of previous owners and price paid. It is most likely that the notebooks belonged to Annesley Tyndale (Captain A. T. Warre) since it was his Collection that George Warre inherited. During his lifetime, Captain Warre lent approximately thirty pieces to the International Exhibition of Chinese Art held at the Royal Academy, London in 1935-6. Pieces from the Warre Collection were presented through the National Art Collectors Fund to Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery in 1935, perhaps as a bequest from Captain A. T. Warre. George Warre added to the Collection with his wife Nora, whom he married in 1912 and who also showed a keen interest in Chinese art. In July 1940, George Warre sent six items to The Montreal Museum of Fine Art, initially on loan, and then in May 1951 he decided to donate them as a gift. In October 1960 Mrs. Warre, who outlived her husband by twenty-two years, donated twenty-one pieces from the Collection, which at one time comprised over 300 pieces, to The National Trust; they were at first placed at Claydon House, Buckinghamshire, and are now at Dudmaston, Shropshire. In September 1970, she gave forty-four pieces to The Art Gallery and Museum at the Royal Pavilion, Brighton. The Warre Collection was amassed through purchases from highly respected London dealers such as Spinks, Bluetts, Sparks, Malletts, Partridges, and Gorer.

A RARE PALE CELADON JADE 'BOYS' BOWL

QIANLONG (1736-1795)

Details

A RARE PALE CELADON JADE 'BOYS' BOWL
QIANLONG (1736-1795)
The bowl with steep, tapering sides, carved with two boys in the round standing on the exterior, leaning on the rounded rim with their forearms, the younger boy holding a flaming pearl and standing on openwork clouds, the older wearing loose robes and holding a ruyi sceptre over his shoulder, between them a dragon climbs up and peers over the rim, the softly polished stone of even pale celadon tone
6¼ in. (16 cm.) wide, fitted wood stand

Provenance

With Messrs. Spink & Son; purchased 5 June 1918 (£ 105).
Captain A. T. Warre, no. 140.
Mr. & Mrs. George Warre.

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Lot Essay

Related bowls with boys are illustrated The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Commercial Press, Hong Kong, 1995, vol. 42, 'Jadeware III', plates 163, 164, 202 and 204. Compare also a smaller jade group with three boys around a bowl from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman which was sold in our Hong Kong Rooms, 28 November 2006, lot 1376.

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