Strauss & co - 18 March 2019, Cape Town

THE DR JR AND MARY STRONG COLLECTION OF CHINESE AND JAPANESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART LOTS 1–17 14 9 A Chinese mottled yellow and grey-glazed miniature bottle vase, Qing Dynasty, 19th century the rim and foot in an iron-brown glaze, 6,4 cm high ; a Chinese lemon-yellow glazed miniature vase, Qing Dynasty, 19th century, the ovoid body with green-glazed rim, 6 cm high ; and a copper-red glazed double gourd, miniature bottle vase, 19th century, 6,4 cm high (3) R  –   10 A Chinese iron and black lustre glazed vase, Meiping, Qing Dynasty, 18th/19th century the rounded shoulders rising to a short slightly everted rim, unglazed base, 17,5 cm high R  –   11 A Chinese flambé-glazed water pot, Qing Dynasty, late 19th century the bulbous body suffused with an oxblood- red glaze heightened with lavender streaks, chips to the foot, 6 cm high ; and a Chinese ‘Lotus’water pot, late Qing Dynasty, the rounded sides applied with brown-glazed sprig moulded scrolling lotus on a cream craquelure ground, 5,2 cm high (2) R  –   12 A Chinese powder-blue-glazed saucer-dish, Qing Dynasty, 18th/ 19th century the front and reverse with stippled-blue glaze, the rim with simulated ‘bronze’band border, apocryphal six-character Xuande underglaze- blue double-ring mark, 21,4 cm diameter R  –   13 A Chinese celadon moulded dish, Qing Dynasty, 19th century the body sprig moulded with butterflies and flowerheads, with wavy rim, raised on a circular unglazed foot, apocryphal underglaze-blue six-character Qianlong mark, 16,2 cm diameter R  –   9 10 11 12 13