Strauss & co - 7 October 2019, Cape Town

THE ANDREW NEWALL COLLECTION LOTS 1-164 36 101 A Chinese Export silver claret jug, Wang Hing, 1854-1941 the ovoid body chased with courtiers, horsemen and their attendants at various pursuits, before pavilions with maidens viewing the events, with a balustrade and rocky outcrop below, the shoulder with key-fret border, raised on a stepped circular foot, the handle modelled in the form of a dragon, the hinged cover chased with a dragon rising out of the clouds, his head modelled as the final, dents, 33,5cm high, 630g R30 000 - 40 000 102 A Chinese Export silver tankard, Leeching (Lee Ching), 1830-1895 cylindrical, chased in relief with three court officials seated before a table within a balustraded pavilion, viewing five warrior contestants astride their horses partaking in an archery competition, a target hanging from a willow tree with two attendants holding their standards, with a further pavilion and two musicians heralding the occasion with a horn and drum, the whole centred by a bat suspending a vacant shield-shaped cartouche, the side applied in high relief with a five-claw dragon, gilt interior, the lip and foot with reeded rims, abrasion, 14,5cm high, 445g R25 000 - 30 000 103 A Chinese Export silver tankard, Sun Shing, 1790-1915 the cylindrical body chased in relief with birds amongst bamboo issuing from a rocky outcrop with prunus blossom, centred by a circular cartouche engraved with a crest, the side applied with a bamboo handle, the lip and foot with reeded rims, dent, 9,7cm high, 155g R8 000 - 10 000 104 103 102 101 104 A Chinese silver bat box, Bao Qing, Nanjing, late 19th century the peach-shaped part-lobed hinged cover chased in relief with an inverted bat, its wings encompassing six lobed panels each engraved with maidens, a pair of squirrels and foliage, enclosing three compartments, the shaped sides engraved with alternating panels of eight horses, flowering blossom and birds between ruyi -head borders, the hinge with a small bat to the reverse, split, dents, 9,5cmwide, 150g R8 000 - 10 000 “The presentation to the baby of a silver box that most commonly takes the physical form of a stylised peach that has an inverted bat at the upper end of the fruit is associated with the sanzhou ceremony. A peach, tao , symbolizes longevity and immortality alongside the God of Longevity, shulao . […] What the combined decorative motif on the lid of the box with the inverted bat represents is an auspicious saying fu zi tian lai […] ‘may good fortune rain down upon you’. The interior of these boxes were usually divided into three compartments in order to hold auspicious ceremonial items such as a red egg, symbolizing ‘new life’as well as ‘harmony’and ‘unity’[…]” Adrien von Ferscht (2019) Zhuazhou and Manyuejiu Chinese Silver Ritual Obects , page 2 - 4, illustrated as figure 3.