Strauss & co - 18 November 2019, Cape Town

431 432 A pair of Chinese champlevé enamelled brass lanterns, late 19th century each pagoda-shaped top with bells suspended from the corners, surmounted by a flaming pearl finial, the lamp holders pierced with phoenixes amongst clouds, on a turned, knopped support decorated with a three-clawed dragon amongst clouds and various blooms, on a stepped plinth base, fitted for electricity, 122cm high, with loose octagonal ebonised bases (2) R  -   *We do not guarantee electrical fittings 429 Leberecht Lortet FRENCH 1826-1901 Paysage de Montagne signed oil on canvas 90 by 133,5cm; 125,5cm by 169,5cm by 8cm including frame R  -   430 A Chinese ink and colour scroll painting painted with a mountainous riverscape, foxing, signed, unexamined out of the frame, 124 by 32,5cm ; and a Chinese ink and colour scroll painting, with a fisherman on a jetty before a mountainscape, foxing, signed, chopmark, unexamined out of the frame, 137 by 34cm (2) R  -   431 Two Chinese brass and fruitwood standards, 19th/20th century each baluster shaft with inscription headed by a horned dragon and Buddhist emblems with spear- shaped terminal, wooden handles, restorations, the larger 110cm high (2) R  -   429 432 430 145