Strauss & co - 13 October 2014, Cape Town

70 186 A Chinese bronze scholar’s scroll weight, Qing Dynasty, 19th century rectangular with scroll corners, applied with a handle in the form of a pair of contesting dragons above a beaded border enclosing panels of chilong , 27cm long R8 000–10 000 187 A Siamese silver presentation box, early 20th century the hinged cover and body moulded in relief with figural landscapes within shaped cartouches, enclosed within foliate and stiff-leaf borders, 5 30g, 8cm high, 17,5cmwide , flanked by a pair of silver lions, 245g all in, 7cm high , to a rectangular hardwood base, 28cmwide R8 000–10 000 188 A Chinese Export silver cigarette case, maker’s mark CLK for Lee Kam, late 19th/early 20th century rectangular, the front moulded in relief with a sage and his attendant beneath a tree overlooking a fisherman before a bridge, with pavilions and a mountanous landscape in the distance, centred by a shield-shaped cartouche engraved with the initials ‘MDM’, the reverse with a three-clawed dragon holding a flaming pearl, gilt interior, inscribed Dongtian, 67,3g, 8,3cm long R1 500–2 000 186 187