Strauss & co - 7 October 2019, Cape Town

201 A Chinese Export blue and white dish, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong period, 1735-1796 shaped oval, the centre decorated with two deer in pursuit of linghzi before a rocky outcrop, a balustrade and ‘The Three Friends’, the cavetto with scrollwork border, the rim with butterflies, foliage and diaper borders, sienna-glazed rim, chips, 32,5cmwide R7 000 - 9 000 202 A Chinese Export blue and white dish, Qing Dynasty, 18th/19th century with canted corners, the centre painted with pagodas and dwellings before a mountainous riverscape, with a small figure crossing a bridge, the cavetto with scroll head border, the rim with cell diaper, lappet and flowerhead borders, fritting chips, firing crack to the reverse, 41,5cmwide R6 000 - 8 000 203 A Chinese blue and white dish, Qing Dynasty, 19th century the centre decorated with a five-clawed dragon amongst clouds encircling a flaming pearl, enclosed by four further dragons all in pursuit of flaming pearls, the reverse with four sprays of bamboo, underglaze-blue six-character mark, 27,5cm diameter R6 000 - 8 000 204 A pair of Chinese famille-rose bowls, Guangxu, 1875-1908 each enamelled with three chilong -headed medallions centred by a lotus bloom, divided by further lotus blooms, flowerheads and Buddhist emblems, iron-red and gilt borders, apocryphal underglaze-blue six-character Qianlong mark, 11,5cm diameter (2) R20 000 - 25 000 205 A Chinese famille-rose ruby-back ‘Lady and Boys’ plate, Qing Dynasty, 19th century the centre delicately enamelled with a foliate- shaped panel of a seated courtier and two small boys, one holding a peony blossom, the other a ruyi sceptre, before a bamboo table set with scholar’s objects, enclosed by formal foliate and scroll borders, the rim with four shaped panels painted with peonies and blossoms enclosed by a black and pink diaper ground interspersed with panels of white-glazed dragons, the whole with scrolling iron-red lotus and gilt highlights, the reverse with ruby-glaze, 23cm diameter R20 000 - 25 000 203 201 202 205 204 61