Strauss & co - 16 March 2015, Cape Town

306 A pair of Chinese blue and white plates, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi (1662-1722) each circular, painted with four panels of peonies divided by bifurcated lines, enclosing a flowerhead rondel, fritting chips, one with a hairline crack, minor firing faults, underglaze-blue double-ring mark, 22cm diameter (2) R10 000–12 000 307 A Chinese provincial carved celadon-glazed bowl, 17th century the interior with craquelure glaze, the exterior carved with foliage, raised on a circular foot, two-character moulded mark, chips to the rims, hairline cracks, 20cm diameter R6 000–8 000 308 A Cizhou type stoneware vase, Song/Yuan Dynasty the ovoid body decorated with cream and dark brown slip and abstract motifs between double-line borders, the neck with four lug handles, chip to the footrim, neck reduced, chips to the lug handles, 27,5cm high R6 000–8 000 provenance Dr William Frederick Purcell (1866-1919), the arachnologist and biologist, and thence by descent. He was a well known collector of Cape furniture and was involved with the restoration of Koopmans De Wet House Museum, Cape Town. 307 306 308 109