Review 2011

Ceramics A rare Chinese ‘Cape of Good Hope’ tea bowl and saucer, Qianlong, circa 1740 Sold R42 332, September 2011 For us in South Africa the most pertinent ceramics from the historical point of view – and our collections are still largely dominated by our own history – are those enamelled at Canton with the Dutch fleet anchored in the roadstead at Table Bay. C.S. Woodward, Oriental Ceramics at the Cape of Good Hope 1652-1795 , A.A. Balkema, Cape Town and Rotterdam, 1974, page 131. 66