Strauss & co - 21 October 2013, Cape Town

148 A Chinese blue and white jar globular, the sides applied with elephant-head handles, the body painted with lotus heads and flowering foliage, with lappet and wave-shaped borders, apocryphal Qianlong six-character seal mark in underglaze-blue, 12cm high R3 000 – 4 000 149 A Chinese blue and white plate, 19th century painted with a warrior astride his horse, followed by his attendant bearing his standard and being beckoned through the entrance to a castle by the gate-keeper, with a servant preparing tea on the rampart, the reverse with three sprays of blossoms, underglaze-blue four- character and double-ring mark, 18,5cm diameter R3 000 – 4 000 150 A Chinese robin’s-egg and blue and white glazed vase the baluster body with garlic neck and painted with three rondels of birds amongst foliage, apocryphal six-character mark in underglaze-blue, 20,5cm high R3 000 – 4 000 151 A Chinese robin’s-egg and blue and white glazed vase oval with shortened neck, the four sides with conforming indented panels, the front and reverse painted with a river and mountainscape, one side with inscription, the other with flowers and butterflies, apocryphal underglaze-blue Kangxi eight-character mark, 13,5cm high R3 500 – 4 500 148 149 150 151 70