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

86 PROPERTY OF A COLLECTOR LOTS 338–363 345 A Chinese Table Bay plate, Qianlong period, 1735-1796 painted en grisaille with two ships and a skiff in Table Bay flying enamelled Dutch flags before Table Mountain, Devils Peak, Lions Head and Signal Hill, enclosed by a double en grisaille line, the border painted with flower-filled cornucopias, foliage and flowerheads, gilt rim, restored, 22,7cm diameter R50 000 - 70 000 PROVENANCE Sue Ollemans, Michael Stevenson & Deon Viljoen, Art of the Dutch & British Colonies in South Africa & East Asia , Johannesburg, 26-29 August 1998, lot 41. LITERATURE C.S. Woodward (1974) Oriental Ceramics at the Cape of Good Hope , A.A. Balkema, Cape Town, illustrated on page 137, fig.157. 346 A Chinese VOC blue and white dish, 18th/19th century circular, the centre painted with the VOC monogram and a pair of long- tailed birds amongst pomegranates and peonies, enclosed by a triple blue-line border and six fan-shaped panels enclosing peonies, bamboo and blossoms, the reverse with three sprays of bamboo, 30cm diameter R40 000 - 60 000 347 A Royal Delft de Porceleyne Fles earthenware polychrome Commemorative VOC plate, 1619-1919 the centre moulded and painted with a Dutch sailing ship from the conquest of Jakarta flanked by two shield-shaped crests headed by the VOC monogram and the dates ‘1619. Mei.1919’, the rim painted ‘De cost gaet voor de baet uit 1598’, raised on a low foot, underglaze-blue Delft factory mark, painted 9L6, 23cm diameter R4 000 - 6 000 PROVENANCE Ashbey’s Galleries, Cape Town, 26 March 2016, lot 75. 348 A Dutch silver VOC ingot oblong, countermarked with the stamps of the Dutch East India Company (Zeeland Chambers in Middelburg), with assayer’s mark, 14,5cm long, 1445g R40 000 - 60 000 PROVENANCE Christie’s, Chinese and Japanese Ceramics, Furniture and Works of Art , Amsterdam, 26 October 1993, lot 418. Christie’s, The Bredenhof Bullion , Amsterdam, 4 December 1986. These bars were salvaged from the wreck of the Bredenhof which went down in the Mozambique Channel in 1753. 349 A large VOC iron key, 18th century the pierced terminal with the VOC insignia R20 000 - 30 000 PROVENANCE This lot was purchased from Earle D. Vandekar of Knightsbridge Ltd, 1988 by the late Elmar Breuning, philanthropist and collector. Stephan Welz & Company in association with Sotheby’s, Cape Town, 14 February 2007, lot 761. 345 346 347 348 349