Strauss & co - 18 November 2019, Cape Town

460 Muriel Rycroft SOUTH AFRICAN 20THCENTURY Girl in a Blue Frock signed and dated 1957 oil on board 90 by 60cm; 110 by 79 by 6,5cm including frame R  -   461 A Chinese famille-verte ‘cong’ vase, Qing Dynasty, 19th century the sides moulded in relief with I Ching characters, on a conforming foot, 27cm high ; a Chinese famille-verte vase, Qing Dynasty, 19th century, the sides moulded in relief with a pair of mask-and-ring handles, decorated with a pair of dragons contesting a flaming pearl above stylised waves enclosed by Greek-key borders, apocryphal six-character Kangxi mark, 25,5cm high ; and a Chinese polychrome enamel Gu-shaped vase, Qing Dynasty, 19th century, with flared neck and base, with shou and character marks, damaged, 31cm high (3) R  -   462 A Chinese silk scroll painting, 19th century in colours, painted with two noble ladies and their attendants on a terrace flanked by a prunus tree, bamboo and scholar’s rocks, minor discolouration, holes to border, framed, 143 by 62cm R  -   463 A French ebonised, ormolu- mounted, ivory and mother-of- pearl inlaid cabinet, 19th century the serpentine-shaped grey-veined marble top above a frieze inlaid with mother-of-pearl scrolling foliage, a panelled door below centred by an ivory flower-filled jardinière enclosed by scrolling foliage, enclosing a pair of shaped shelves, shaped sides with rounded canted corners mounted with trailing ribbon and flowerheads, shaped apron centred by a coquillage, on cabriole legs headed by Bacchanalian masks, on paw feet, minor losses and cracking, 115cm high, 118cmwide, 115cm deep R  -   *This lot is not suitable for export 460 462 461 463 154