Strauss & co - 7 October 2019, Cape Town

THE ANDREW NEWALL COLLECTION LOTS 1-164 44 134 136 135 132 133 132 A Japanese carved wooden figure of a Jurojin, Meiji period, 1868-1912 the God of Longevity dressed in elaborate robes and headdress decorated with flowers and clouds, holding a staff in his right hand, a whisk and fan protruding from his right sleeve, with a crane resting against his back, 17cm high R5 000 - 7 000 133 A Japanese inlaid bronze figure of a monkey, Meiji period, 1868-1912 seated wearing a short jacket, crouched over a kaki fruit attached to a bifurcated stem in his right hand and clutching his left foot as he cries out in pain, his jacket inlaid with silver and copper honzogan , with sprigs of aoi and the Genji Monogatari motif, his teeth and eyes inlaid with silver, bruise, 15,7cm high R25 000 - 30 000 134 A Japanese bronze and gilt two-handled vase, Meiji period, 1868-1912 the ovoid body finely chiselled with a winged kirin picked out in gilt amongst clouds, the reverse with a ho-ho bird before a flowering tree, the shoulders applied with a pair of masks, their horns forming the handles, the neck with a band of stylised bats, raised on three cockerel- headed scroll supports, on an engraved stepped circular base, with detachable liner, 28,5cm high R15 000 - 20 000 135 A Japanese silver and gilt bronze basket, Meiji period, 1868-1912 rectangular with rounded corners, inset to the centre with a oiran , a high-ranking courtesan and her attendants, her obi engraved with a crane, with a young boy to her right, her female attendant carrying a box embellished with a tasseled cord, her third attendant carrying a parasol, surrounded by a simulated rattan border, finely woven in gozame-ami, signed, 25cm long R6 000 - 8 000 136 A Japanese bronze model of a crab, Meiji period, 1868-1912 the crustacean separately cast and attached to a wooden log, 9,5cm high R3 000 - 5 000