Important South African Art, Furniture, Silver and Ceramics
Live Auction, 26 September 2011
Furniture, Silver, Ceramics and Paintings Day Sale
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About this Item
A rare Chinese 'Cape of Good Hope' tea bowl and saucer, Qianlong, circa 1740
finely painted with two Dutch ships and a sailing skiff in the foreground, a view of Table Mountain behind and the peaks of Signal Hill and the Lion's Head both sporting the Dutch flag, another flying from the Castle of Good Hope, the shore-line painted with buildings and the gallows, enclosed by a black and gilt-line border,minute rim chips, gilding worn at the rim, 12cm diameter
Notes
Woodward discusses Chinese porcelain decorated with shipping in the roadstead at Table Bay, for which the original designs given to the Chinese enamellers have not yet been identified.
Further examples are also held in the William Fehr Collection at The Castle, Cape Town
Literature
cf. CS Woodward, Oriental Ceramics at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652-1795, AA Balkema, Cape Town, 1974, between pages 116 and 117, colour plate E, where a similar example belonging to the Africana Museum is illustrated
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