Strauss & co - 18 March 2019, Cape Town

21 44 A Chinese famille rose dish, late Qing Dynasty circular, the centre painted with a peony, iris, berries, foliage and lingzhi before a rocky outcrop painted in shades of blue and green, gilt rim, apocryphal iron-red Qianlong mark, gilt loss, 24,2 cm diameter R  –   45 A Chinese famille-rose bowl, Republic period the interior painted in iron-red with a peach enclosed by five bats, the exterior enamelled and painted with a pair of long tailed pheasants perched on a branch with clusters of berries, peony and foliage, rim chips, iron-red six-character mark of Wu Chang Gongsi, 19 cm diameter R  –   46 A pair of Chinese yellow sgraffiato ground and famille- rose vases, late Qing/early Republic period the tapering cylindrical bodies with circular panels of a bird on a branch amongst blossom, enclosed by a yellow-ground finely incised with feathery arabesques and enamelled with spring flowers, apocryphal iron- red Qianlong seal mark, 34 cm high (2) R  –   47 A large Chinese famille-rose ‘Nine Peaches’ bottle vase, Tianqiuping, Republic period enamelled with gnarled branches bearing nine auspicious peaches and blooms, rivets, apocryphal iron-red Qianlong six-character mark, collector’s paper labels, 52 cm high R  –   44 45 46 47