Strauss & co - 18 November 2019, Cape Town

231 A Chinese provincial blue and white bowl, Qing Dynasty, 19th century the centre painted with a riverscape within a double-line, the border with stylised pine needles, the body painted with scholars, an Immortal seated on a crane, and attendants at various pursuits on the banks of a river with pine trees, raised on a circular foot, crack, chips, firing flaw, underglaze-blue Buddhist mark, 20,3cm diameter ; three Chinese blue and white bowls, Qing Dynasty, 19th century, each centred by a mountainous landscape within a double-line, the border painted with peonies and foliage, the body painted with Shou lao and a couple before pine trees viewed by a scholar, raised on a circular foot, cracks, chips, repair, 8,2cm diameter ; another, similar, hairline crack, underglaze-blue character mark, 21,5cm diameter ; a pair of Chinese blue and white saucer dishes, similar, underglaze-blue two- character mark, 17,3cm diamete r; and five Chinese blue and white pedestal dishes, Qing Dynasty, 19th century, similar, underglaze-blue double-ring mark, 20cm diameter, firing chip to the footrim (12) R  -   232 A miscellaneous group of Chinese famille-rose bowls, saucers and pedestal dishes, late 19th/early 20th century variously decorated, chips, hairline cracks, each pedestal dish 15,5cm diameter ; two covered bowls, late 19th/early 20th century, similarly decorated, chips, hairline cracks, the larger 13,5cm diameter ; and a famille- rose jardinière, late 19th century, enamelled with a grasshopper amongst flowers, raised on three bracket feet, chips, wear to the gilt rim, 8,2cm high (21) R  -   233 A pair of Chinese reverse painted glass snuff bottles, 20th century each painted with warriors in battle, one with later stopper, 8,2cm high excluding stopper ; and a Chinese blue and white red-glazed snuff bottle, early 20th century, cylindrical, decorated with a sage and his attendant before a rocky outcrop, with later stopper, 7,8cm excluding stopper (3) R  -   234 A Japanese stoneware figure of an Immortal, early 20th century the standing bare-breasted bearded figure swathed in robes glazed with splashes of iron-red, turquoise and cream against a dark-brown ground, chips, lacking feet, impressed character mark, 26cm high ; another, similar, seated holding a whisk in his right hand, his robes glazed in iron-red, 15cm high ; and a Japanese stoneware figural group of wrestlers, early 20th century, each figure wearing a tunic glazed in shades of brown, blue and dark brown, damaged, restoration, impressed four-character mark, 17cm high (3) R  -   235 Four Chinese silver two-tael sycees, Qing Dynasty, 19th century three mounted on shaped wooden blocks, the fourth example on a pierced stand, each sycee 3 by 1,5cm ; a pair of smaller examples, each on a pierced stand, 2,5 by 1,3cm ; and a pair of carved soapstone shoes, late 19th century, 7,5cm long (8) R  -   231 232 233 234 235 88