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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MR. AND MRS. ALEXANDER SAUNDERSON
(lots 4 to 7, 9 to 12 and 14 to 18)
Alexander Saunderson and his wife Louise Astor Van Alen Saunderson inherited and collected choice objects from the traditions of Anglo-Irish landed gentry and prominent Americans shopping on European grand tours. Saunderson, a captain in the Rifle Brigade, German prisoner-of-war during most of World War II, and aide-de-camp to Lord Lawrence, was the last private owner of Castle Saunderson, an historic house and estate on the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland which had been in his family for more than three centuries. It is now a Boy Scout Center. Louise, who died in 1998, was the great grand-daughter of William Backhouse Astor and great-niece of Frederick Vanderbilt. She grew up at Wakehurst, the colossal Newport home built by her grandfather, James J. Van Alen, and furnished by him on near-constant European travels in the 1880's and 90's. It is now a central building of Salve Regina College. The Saunderson's home in Santa Barbara was furnished with treasures from Castle Saunderson and Wakehurst as well as from their own travels.
A PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE BALUSTER JARS AND COVERS
KANGXI PERIOD
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A PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE BALUSTER JARS AND COVERS
KANGXI PERIOD
Each painted in inky tones of cobalt blue with blossoming prunus boughs on a 'cracked ice' ground, a band of dentil around the shoulder and a ruyi head collar on the rim, the domed covers decorated to match and surmounted by large, blue, pointed knops
17 3/8 in. (44.1 cm.) high (4)
KANGXI PERIOD
Each painted in inky tones of cobalt blue with blossoming prunus boughs on a 'cracked ice' ground, a band of dentil around the shoulder and a ruyi head collar on the rim, the domed covers decorated to match and surmounted by large, blue, pointed knops
17 3/8 in. (44.1 cm.) high (4)