Strauss & co - 6 February 2012, Cape Town

388 Ten Chinese Export blue and white teabowls and saucers, circa 1725 ‘Search for Plum Blossom’ pattern, each piece with scholar on horseback searching for plum blossom, an attendant walking behind holding a plum branch, some with hairline cracks, the rims with fritting chips, the saucers 11,5cm diameter (20) R20 000 – 25 000 PROVENANCE Sold: Sotheby’s, Amsterdam, Made in Imperial China, 76 000 pieces of Chinese Export Porcelain from the Ca Mau Shipwreck, circa 1725, 29-31 January 2007 389 Ten Chinese Export blue and white teabowls and saucers, circa 1725 ‘The Fallow Deer’ pattern, each piece with a spotted deer beneath a pine tree on a mountain path, the rim with a border of willow and flowers, some with hairline cracks, rims with fritting chips, the saucers 12,8cm diameter (20) R20 000 – 25 000 PROVENANCE Sold: Sotheby’s, Amsterdam, Made in Imperial China, 76 000 pieces of Chinese Export Porcelain from the Ca Mau Shipwreck, circa 1725, 29-31 January 2007 388 389 120