Strauss & co - 8 October 2009, Cape Town

32 44 45 43 A Dutch Delft blue and white dish, late 18th/early 19th century the centre painted with flowers and foliage enclosed by a foliate border, fritting chips, repairs, 34,5cm diameter R2 000 – 3 000 45 A Dutch Delft tobacco jar, de Drie Klokken, 19th century ovoid, painted with a seated Red Indian smoking a long clay pipe beside a jar inscribed ‘ST:OMER’, with further vessels on the other side, one inscribed ‘VOC’, chips, underglaze-blue painted factory mark, 25,5cm high R5 000 – 7 000 LITERATURE cf. C.S. Woodward, Oriental Ceramics at the Cape of Good Hope 1652-1795, Cape Town, 1974, p 104, pl 130, where a similar example is illustrated 44 A pair of Dutch Delft blue and white tobacco jars, De Porceleyne Klaeuw, 19th century ovoid, painted with shaped panels inscribed ‘MANILLA’and ‘PORTORICO’ flanked by a pair of Red Indians smoking long clay pipes, associated brass covers, underglaze-blue painted mark , 27cm high (2) R15 000 – 20 000 Sold: Sotheby’s, Johannesburg, The Contents of Norscot, 9 and 10 February 1982, lot 694