Strauss & co - 8 - 11 November 2020

138 A Chinese Export famille-rose Armorial plate, Qing Dynasty, 1785-1791 commissioned for the Cape market, octagonal, with gilt rim, the cavetto enamelled with a dark blue double border decorated with gilt stars enclosing enamelled sprays of flowers and fruit, with the Van Schuler/Van Aerssen coat of arms supported by a griffon and a lion and surmounted by a ducal coronet of five strawberry leaves, the centre painted with a further spray of fruit, flowers and foliage, the rim re-gilded, 22,7cmwide R15 000 - 20 000 139 A Chinese jar and cover, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong period, 1736-1795 decorated in the Imari palette, the ovoid body painted with a contesting kylin and phoenix amongst peony, lotus and chrysanthemum blossoms, with a further phoenix perched on a scholar’s rock, all enclosed by double blue-line and diaper borders, the cover painted with peonies and scrolling foliage amongst scholar’s rocks enclosed by blue-line borders and gilt rim, 23,6cm high R8 000 - 10 000 PROVENANCE This plate was part of ‘the last armorial dinner-service made during the Company’s regime, ordered by Cornelis van Aerssen Beyeren, Lord of Voshol [who] arrived at the Cape in April 1785’(Woodward, C.S., Oriental Ceramics at the Cape of Good Hope 1652-1975: An account of the porcelain trade of the Dutch East India Company with particular reference to ceramics with the V.O.C. monogram, the Cape market, and South African collections , A.A. Balkema, Cape Town, 1974, pg. 125) 138 139 40