Strauss & co - 13 October 2014, Cape Town

76 The following lots 212-214 were acquired by the current owner’s mother in the 1930s. * 212 A Chinese tortoiseshell-mounted pierced jade table screen, Qing Dynasty, 18th/19th century composed of a pair of arched panels carved with dragons, united by an oval-shaped tortoiseshell plaque carved with courtiers and their attendants before a pavilion, the stone of mottled grey and white tone, to a hardwood frame carved with a pair of dragons contesting a flaming pearl, one panel reduced, 13,8cm high, 11cmwide R15 000–20 000 212 213 A Chinese celadon jade plaque, late 19th/early 20th century rectangular, the front carved with a dragon, a feng-hu and flowers, the stone suffused with caramel tones, 5,4cm high, 8cmwide , with carved wooden stand R12 000–15 000 213