Strauss & co - 12 October 2015, Cape Town

179 A Chinese blue and white wall vase, Transitional Period, 17th century bottle-shaped, painted with a bird perched on a flowering tree before a rocky outcrop, between diaper borders, aperture to the reverse, chip to the reverse, pseudo Chenghua underglaze-blue six- character mark, 17cm high R4 000–6 000 180 A Chinese blue and white miniature scholar’s water pot, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi (1662-1722) cylindrical, painted with a courtier and his attendant astride a horse with a manservant in the foreground, the reverse painted with a courtier in her rickshaw with attendants, 5,5cm high R4 000–6 000 181 A pair of Chinese blue and white plates, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi (1662-1722) each painted to the centre with flowering trees before a rocky outcrop, the moulded rim with flower-centred lappet border against a cracked- ice ground, the reverse with eight Buddhist emblems, hairline cracks, rim chips, some crazing, underglaze-blue double-ring mark, 21cm diameter (2) R10 000–12 000 182 A Chinese gilt-decorated powder blue vase, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi (1662-1722) baluster, painted with butterflies and foliage between line and diaper borders, gilding worn, paper label ‘HANCOCK 37 BURY STREET, ST JAMES’S SW1’, 34,5cm high R30 000–40 000 179 180 181 182 77