Important South African & International Art, Decorative Arts & Jewellery
Live Auction, 6 March 2017
English Silver, Furniture, Oriental and Cape Silver, Decorative Arts and Furniture
Lot Estimate
ZAR 12 000 - 15 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 56 840
About this Item
A Chinese blue and white bowl, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi, late 17th/early 18th century
the centre painted with a sage and his attendant before a pavilion, with a pair of rabbits in the foreground, a crane in flight above, enclosed by eight alternating panels of maidens at various pursuits and peonies issuing from a rocky outcrop divided by diaper borders, the reverse painted with scroll and foliate sprays divided by a double-line border, underglaze-blue six-character mark, firing crack to the reverse, chips and fritting chips to the rim, 34,5cm diameter
Provenance
Mrs Kotie Roodt-Coetzee, Director, National Cultural History Museum (1965-1978)
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