South African Art, Jewellery and Decorative Arts
Live Auction, 4 February 2013
Decorative Arts
Lot Estimate
ZAR 7 000 - 9 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 28 964
About this Item
A Chinese blue and white vase, Qing Dynasty, late 17th/early 18th century
baluster, the shortened neck with lappet border, decorated with feng-hu birds perched on magnolia and peony branches before a rocky outcrop, hairline crack, four-character mark in underglaze-blue, 21cm high
Provenance
Dr William Frederick Purcell (1866-1919) and thence by descent. William Purcell was an arachnologist and biologist and was involved with the restoration of the Koopmans-De Wet House Museum, Cape Town. He was a known collector of Cape furniture and porcelain.
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