Strauss & co - 5 March 2018, Cape Town

114 301 A Japanese blue and white dish, early 20th century the centre painted with The Three Friends of Winter, enclosed by a foliate diaper border, the rim with wrigglework and flowerhead band, the reverse with scrolling stems and foliage, underglaze-blue six-character mark, 38,5cm diameter ; and another, octagonal, the centre painted with a pavilion before a riverscape with a pair of boats, the cavetto with Greek- key border, the rim with manji and peony border, the reverse with stylised foliage, hairline cracks, underglaze- blue six-character mark, 32,5cmwide (2) R –  302 A Japanese blue and white dish, early 20th century the centre painted with The Three Friends of Winter enclosed by a foliate diaper border, the rim with wrigglework and flowerhead band, the reverse with scrolling stems and foliage, underglaze-blue two- character mark, 46cm diameter R –  303 A Japanese Kutani bowl, Meiji Period, 1868-1912 the centre painted with a finch perched on a magnolia stem, the rim enamelled with chrysanthemums and ‘brocade’border, the reverse with blossom and ‘brocade’band, iron-red nine- character mark, 32,5cm diameter R –  304 A Japanese porcelain bowl, late Meiji Period, 1868-1912 the centre painted with minute butterflies and flowers, with gilt stippled highlights against a white ground, the exterior enamelled with ‘brocade’ medallions, chrysanthemums, sprays of flowers and grasses, raised on a low footrim, with gilt cell-diaper border, underglaze-blue three-character mark, 13,5cm diameter R –  301 303 304 302