Strauss & co - 17 March 2014, Cape Town

121 * 327 A pair of Chinese bamboo, rosewood, and ivory-inlaid table fans and stands, Republic of China (1912-1948) shield-shaped, each side silhouetted with maidens and children in relief at various pursuits, highlighted with ivory panels variously stained and engraved, against a pierced ground enclosed by a foliate border highlighted with cabochon-cut sodalite to a stylised bamboo frame, the handles with a tassel, to a carved and pierced rosewood stand on a rectangular base, signed, 37cm high excluding stand, 48cm high including stand (4) R8 000–10 000 328 A Chinese ancestor portrait, late 19th/early 20th century painted with twelve figures wearing ceremonial robes with badges for seventh and ninth rank civil officials represented by the Mandarin Duck and the Paradise Flycatcher respectively, paper laid down on board, 144,2cm by 91,3cm R20 000–30 000 328 327 329 A pair of Chinese lacquered wood figures of Guanyin each standing barefooted figure adorned with beaded jewellery and holding a scroll, their flowing robes with foliate borders, some lacquer loss, age-related cracks, some distress, 52,5cm high (2) R5 000–7 000 330 A Chinese bronze censer and cover, early 20th century after the archaic, the body incised with taotie masks and dragons, the sides with stylised dragon handles, raised on three lion-mask headed paw feet, the pierced cover with a qilin finial, 23cm high ; and a carved wooden stand (2) R3 000–4 000 331 A Chinese bronze censer and cover, 19th/early 20th century ovoid pierced body moulded with a feng-hu bird to the front, the reverse with a qilin , the sides with archaistic phoenix handles, the cover with a dog of fo finial, raised on mask- headed outset feet, 24cm high R2 000–3 000