Cape Town | Fine, Decorative & African Art, Books & Maps, Carpets, Furniture, Silverware, Jewellery, Watches & Vintage Fashion | October 2020

Each glass with enclosed gilded geometric design, comprising: 6 champagne flutes, 8 red wine, 8 white wine, 7 sweet wine, 6 sherbet cups and 8 wat...

Assorted shapes and sizestallest: 22cm

The shaped circular base with floral motif supporting a central column in the form of an abstract female figure with flowing hair supporting two c...

With conforming removable cut-glass liner, significant rubbing to relief exposing copper base metal, rubbing to other areas47cm wide over the hand...

Depicting a frail figure carrying a water pitcher on her head, the bronze with greenish-brown patina, all raised on a shaped wood base, signed P L...

The face framed with curls and turned towards the left shoulder, raised on an integral rectangular base25cm high

The demure figure with a putti riding a dolphin at her feet, wear to patina, circular base inscribed SABATINO E FILS, wear to the patina33,5cm high

Modelled standing on her left leg as she turns to look at the sole of her right foot, unsigned45cm high

The male and female figures similarly dressed in polychrome and gilded short flared tunics and turbans, each supporting a four-sconce candelabra a...

The Saint dressed in a green robe and kneeling beneath a large tree, both arms outstretched, gazing up at Christ amongst billowing clouds above a ...

Centred by Saint Nicholas before a large halo and Cyrillic text, his right hand raised in blessing, his left holding a scripture, his bearded face...

The gilded panel centred with an Archangel clad in a vermillion and emerald green robe, an orb rests in his left hand while holding a cross in the...

Painted in muted tones across four registers with thirteen scenes from the life of Christ to include: the Annunciation, the three Wise Men present...

The baluster body rising to a shaped shoulder and trumpet neck, enamelled with a pair of iron-red bats in flight around nine ripe peaches borne on...

The globular body painted with numerous polychrome butterflies in flight above a band of pink and yellow lappets, a raised gilt fillet encircling ...

Cylindrical, painted with a phoenix atop a large rock with a pair of cranes and mandarin ducks to the base amongst tree peonies, roses and lotus b...

The exterior centred by a farmer and water buffalo ploughing a rice paddy within a village hamlet, before distant mountains below pink, yellow and...

The oval dish painted with birds, butterflies, Buddha-hand fruit, melons and berries amongst sprays of pink roses, the rim painted with dense flor...

The bulbous body rising to a tubular neck, vividly enamelled with long-tailed phoenixes and peony flowers, all reserved on an emerald green and wh...

Each rectangular dish with a shaped rim and cusped corners, decorated in underglaze-blue and famille rose enamels with a large parasol tree growin...

Rectangular with shaped and cusped corners, painted to the centre with a flowering tree peony and gnarled prunus tree issuing from a rocky outcrop...

Oval, painted to the centre with pagodas amongst willow and pine trees within a watery landscape, the edge painted with a fine diaper pattern inte...

The deep rounded sides rising to a wide foliate rim, the well painted with two warriors astride horseback beneath a large peony bloom, the deep ca...

Each painted to the centre with a single floral medallion contained within a double-line border, enclosed by alternating sprays of prunus and tree...

Painted to the centre with a large hibiscus bloom amongst leaves and blossoms, the cavetto painted with a spearhead and floral pattern, the rim pa...

Each painted to the centre with a dense foliate cartouche enclosed by finely pained tree peonies each with a Buddhist emblem, the rim with a diamo...

Painted to the centre with a stylised lotus bloom with scrolling foliage, all contained within a blue double-line border, the rim similarly decora...

Painted to the centre with a carp amongst waves leaping towards the sky, the rim painted with plum blossoms on a bold diaper-ground, the exterior ...

The circular dish with deep rounded sides, the centre painted with pagodas within a mountainous riverscape and figures at various pursuits, enclos...

The lower bulb finely painted with figures at various pursuits amongst large trees and pavilions within a river-landscape, the upper bulb painted ...

The bulbous body rising to a short flaring neck, painted with four alternating bat and endless-knot cartouches each containing a maiden before a b...

The baluster body painted with figures at various pursuits within a lakeside village hamlet set amongst large rocks and trees before a mountainous...

The ovoid body rising to a short rim, decorated in intense cobalt blue and white slip with two boys, each holding a peony bloom aloft while leadin...

Ovoid, painted with houses amongst trees before a mountainous riverscape, a lone fisherman seated on the riverbank, the reverse with a boat, age w...

Ovoid, painted with a village hamlet before a riverscape and mountainous outcrop, the reverse with a sailboat and birds, age wear, glaze scratches...

Ovoid, painted with a lone fisherman beside a village hamlet amongst rocks and trees before a continuous riverscape, age wear, firing irregulariti...

The ovoid body painted with sprays of hawthorn blossoms on shaped branches, all reserved on a cracked-ice ground, the neck decorated with rectangu...

Ovoid, painted with gnarled branches issuing white hawthorn blossoms, all on a cracked-ice ground, the neck painted with a band of geometric lappe...

The pear-shaped body rising from a short foot to a cylindrical neck with a banded mouth, the body under a soft lavender-blue glaze, hardwood stand...

Raised on a flaring foot, the compressed globular body rising to a slender neck surmounted by a flaring mouth, all profusely enamelled with lotus ...

Centred by a gilt Shou medallion, enclosed by four roundels containing the characters Wan Shou Wu Jiang on a Wan pattern ground, each divided by a...

The ovoid body rising to a short flaring mouth, enamelled with a pair of phoenixes in shades of green, blue, purple and iron-red amongst a multitu...

Painted and enamelled to the exterior with a dragon and phoenix soaring amongst flames, each in pursuit of flaming pearl, the interior glazed whit...

The well painted with a beribboned Wan-pattern basket overflowing with spring flowers and foliage, the rim finely enamelled with a floral diaper-p...

Each bulbous body rising from a short foot to a tall cylindrical neck, painted with mythical birds having the head of a phoenix, body of a dragon ...

The ovoid body rising to a cylindrical neck, enamelled to the back and front with oval reserves containing officials and scholars within interior ...

The baluster body applied with a pair of five-claw dragons contesting a flaming pearl, their bodies glazed in brown and green to resemble bronze, ...

Each thinly-potted cup rising from a splayed foot decorated in underglaze-blue, two painted in black with prunus blossoms, two more with chrysanth...

The compressed body rising from a high foot, the cylindrical neck fitted with a pair of lug-handles, the front and reverse moulded with flowers am...

Each modelled seated on a shaped plinth, the snarling mouth revealing the teeth beneath articulated eyes, the mane with tight curls extending down...

Each striding figure with an arched back and curling tail, the removable head turned to the back gazing upwards, the gaping mouth supporting a rem...

Each recumbent deer naturalistically cast with all four legs tucked under the body, the arched antlers pointing down towards the back over pricked...

Each bottle-shaped vase enamelled with a five-claw dragon meandering amongst clouds in pursuit of a flaming pearl on a gilt metal ground, age wear...

Enamelled with curling tendrils issuing sprays of morning-glory blooms above chrysanthemums amongst a multitude of colourful butterflies in flight...

The ovoid body rising to wide flaring mouth, the short neck encircled by three raised bands, the entire body under a marbleised brown and verdigri...

Each raised on three lion-mask cabriole legs supporting two orbs, the upper cast with Shi-Shi lions amongst peony flowers, fitted with elephant-sh...

Rectangular, with two trays stacked above one another, the upper containing an additional shallow tray below a conforming fitted cover, surmounted...

Of slightly tapering cylindrical form, the rounded sides undecorated, the fine grain with characteristic patterning to include minor 'ghost-faces'...

Each with deep rounded sides rising to a flaring rim from a short slightly splayed foot, the softly polished stone of dark green tone mottled with...

The shaped pendant carved to the top and bottom with Ruyi clouds, the centre carved with a caparisoned elephant supporting a vase issuing Ruyis on...