Strauss & co - 6 February 2012, Cape Town

359 A French ‘Sèvres’ style part coffee and tea service, late 19th century painted with portraits of French artistocrats within gilt and ‘jewelled’ borders against a royal-blue ground with gilt-line decoration, comprising: 4 coffee-cans, 4 saucers, a teapot, milk jug, sugar bowl and cover, and 3 cabinet plates, pseudo Sèvres mark and interlaced Ls, some inscribed with titles in underglaze-blue, one coffee can restored, some ‘jewels’ deficient, 15cm high (14) R40 000 – 60 000 358 A Copeland Spode Staffordshire part tea service, 1875-1890 painted in the Chinoiserie style with bands of flowers, birds and foliage against a royal-blue ground, with gilt- line and scroll decoration, the reverse similarly decorated against a white ground, comprising: 12 cups and 12 saucers, 12 tea plates, a slop bowl and 2 sandwich plates, green-printed factory mark, gilding worn, the slop bowl 8,5cm diameter (39) R5 000 – 7 000 359 358 107