Strauss & co - 15 October 2018, Cape Town

100 273 A Chinese Export famille rose plate, Qing Dynasty, circa 1800 oval, the rim enamelled with pink and green flowerheads below a gilt border, the pierced slightly everted rim between floral medallions enclosed by a double burnt-orange and gilt border, the centre with a further floral medallion enclosed by a wreath of pink and blue flowers joined by a burnt-orange and gilt ribbon decorated with stars, restorations, 26cmwide R –  This plate was ‘made c. 1800 for Rudolph Cloete of Constantia’(Woodward, C.S., Oriental Ceramics at the Cape of Good Hope 1652-1975 : An account of the porcelain trade of the Dutch East India Company with particular reference to ceramics with the V.O.C. monogram, the Cape market, and South African collections , A.A. Balkema, Cape Town, 1974, pg. 129) 274 A Chinese Export famille rose Armorial plate, 1785-1791 octagonal, with gilt rim, the cavetto enamelled with a double dark blue border decorated with gilt stars enclosing enamelled sprays of flowers and fruit, enclosing with the Van Schuler/Van Aerssen coat of arms supported by a griffon and a lion and surmounted by a ducal coronet of five strawberry leaves, the centre painted with a further spray of fruit, flowers and foliage, 22,5cm wide R –  This plate was part of ‘the last armorial dinner- service made during the Company’s regime, ordered by Cornelis van Aerssen Beyeren, Lord of Voshol [who] arrived at the Cape in April 1785’(Woodward, C.S., Oriental Ceramics at the Cape of Good Hope 1652-1975 : An account of the porcelain trade of the Dutch East India Company with particular reference to ceramics with the V.O.C. monogram, the Cape market, and South African collections , A.A. Balkema, Cape Town, 1974, pg. 125) 273 274