Strauss & co - 6 March 2017, Cape Town

94 236 A Chinese blue and white vase, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi, late 17th/ early 18th century of baluster form, painted with cranes and deer in a pine forest before a mountainous landscape, the neck painted with a stiff- leaf border, hairline cracks, chips to the rim, underglaze-blue double-ring mark, 33cm high ; wooden cover and stand R –  237 A Chinese blue and white bowl, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi, late 17th/ early 18th century the centre painted with a sage and his attendant before a pavilion, with a pair of rabbits in the foreground, a crane in flight above, enclosed by eight alternating panels of maidens at various pursuits and peonies issuing from a rocky outcrop divided by diaper borders, the reverse painted with scroll and foliate sprays divided by a double- line border, underglaze-blue six-character mark, firing crack to the reverse, chips and fritting chips to the rim, 34,5cm diameter R –  PROVENANCE Mrs Kotie Roodt-Coetzee, Director, National Cultural History Museum (1965-1978) 238 A Chinese mirror-black-glazed saucer dish, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi, early 18th century decorated in iron-red with butterflies an d flowers within a swastika and cross border, the reverse similarly glazed, 15cm diameter ; and a Chinese blue and white saucer dish, Qing Dynasty, 19th century, painted with an inscription above a pair of birds perched amongst peonies and blossoms before a rocky mountainscape, six-character underglaze-blue mark, 15,5cm diameter (2) R –  236 237 238