Two single-owner collections on sale
Strauss & Co will hold a decorative arts sale at the Vineyard Hotel, Cape Town, on October 7.
This twice-yearly specialist sale features single-owner collections. The catalogue for the spring sale includes art and objects from China, England and Japan drawn from two notable collections: Andrew Newall’s and the estate of Sonia Lapin.
Newall’s comprises Asian artefacts, notably 150 pieces from the Orient. The collection includes Chinese and Japanese ceramics, silver, bronze and enamelware, as well as a concise grouping of Burmese, Indian, Mongolian, Thai and Tibetan silverware. Lapin’s includes jewellery, silverware and furniture.
Newall, son of British-born artist Albert Newall, a pioneering abstract painter and photographer who settled in Cape Town and opened Gallery Medici in Kalk Bay. Andrew worked with his father. The Newall collection includes a Ming Dynasty vase from the Wanli period (estimate R30,000-R40,000), a celadon glass and cinnabar red overlay snuff bottle from the Qing Dynasty (R12,000-R15,000), and a rare Qing Dynasty ruby-red glass snuff bottle produced by the Imperial Glassworks (R12,000-R15,000) accompanied by a paper label for John Sparks, a 20th-century London dealer in Chinese snuff bottles.
Also on offer is a Chinese giltbronze multi-armed figure of Guanyin, 17th century (R50,000-R70,000).
The Lapin sale features a selection of her jewellery, furniture and silverware. Her collection included pieces by Paul Storr, John Hawkins and The Batemans.
Strauss & Co will host public talks in the lead-up to this sale.