Strauss & co - 10 - 11 May 2020, Cape Town

300 A Chinese Export blue and white dish, Qianlong period, 1735-1796 oval, the centre painted with pavilions before a rocky landscape and with a figure in a sampan, the cavetto with a cell-diaper border enclosed by four sprays of peonies and blooms, sienna-glazed rim, minor fritting chips, 39cmwide R5 000 - 7 000 301 A set of four Chinese Export blue and white shell-shaped dishes, Qianlong period, 1735-1796 each painted to the centre with two small figures before a riverscape with a pagoda and dwellings in the distance, enclosed by double blue-line, spear- head and key-fret borders, the shaped border with butterflies and cell-diaper ground, later gilded rim, raised on a foot, 20,5cmwide (4) R5 000 - 7 000 302 A set of thirteen Chinese Export blue and white plates, Qianlong period, 1735-1796 each centre painted with a flower- filled jardinière within double blue-line borders enclosed by a stylised bamboo and berries border, sienna-glazed rim, the reverse with stylised sprays, fritting chips, 22cm diameter ; and another similar, the border decorated with sprays of peonies , chips, hairline cracks, 22,5cm diameter (14) R12 000 - 15 000 303 A set of twelve Chinese Export blue and white soup dishes, Qianlong period, 1735-1796 octagonal, each decorated with pagodas before a mountainous riverscape, the cavetto with cell-diaper and foliate medallions enclosed by four chrysanthemum sprays, fritting chips, 22cm diameter (12) R12 000 - 15 000 300 301 302 303 74