South African Art, Jewellery and Decorative Arts
Live Auction, 6 February 2012
Part 1 - The Walter Beck Collection
Lot Estimate
ZAR 3 000 - 4 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 16 153
About this Item
A stoneware martavan, Soo Chou near Shanghai, 18th/19th century
ovoid, incised with four panels of fish, feng-hu birds, fruit and foliage, the rim with restoration, 34cm high; and a wooden stand
Literature
cf. CS Woodward, Oriental Ceramics at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652-1795, Balkema, Cape Town, 1974, page 156, illustration number 178