Strauss & co - 6 March 2017, Cape Town

96 241 A Chinese blue and white platter, Qing Dynasty, 18th century rectangular, the centre painted with two figures in a garden before a pavilion, with further buildings and a riverscape, the cavetto with cell- diaper and foliate border, the rim with ribbon and diaper border, fritting chips to the rim, 45cmwide R –  242 A Chinese blue and white platter, Qing Dynasty, late 18th/early 19th century rectangular, the centre painted with scholars’objects, a willow tree and peony blossoms before a balustrade, the cavetto with cell-diaper border, the rim with conforming border divided by stylised foliage, 34cmwide R –  243 A Chinese blue and white platter, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong (1736-1795) rectangular, with canted sides painted with a pair of birds before a balustraded fence enclosing ‘The Three Friends’, the cavetto with scroll and spearhead border, the rim with butterflies, flowers and cell-diaper panels, chips to the rim, 30cmwide ; and another example, similar, the centre painted with sprays of flowers, chips to the rim, 28,5cmwide (2) R –  241 242 243