Strauss & co - 22 October 2012, Cape Town

251 A Dutch Colonial silver-mounted Indian rosewood travelling writing- box, 18th century the rectangular hinged top applied with four bosses, the interior fitted with hinged compartments, brass ink and pounce pots, the front with pierced escutcheon and four smaller bosses, the sides with carrying- handles, on turned feet, 15,5cm high, 40cmwide, 28cm deep R20 000 – 25 000 252 A Cape teak and pine octagonal gateleg table, late 17th/early 18th century the top with a drop-leaf to one side above the triangular apron, raised on baluster- turned legs, the gateleg in two halves and with an iron hook, on bun feet joined by a T-stretcher, restorations, 69,5cm high, 142cm long, 100cmwide open R60 000 – 80 000 Sold: Stephan Welz & Co, Cape Town, The Herbert Prins Collection, 21 & 22 October, 1997, lot 56 PROVENANCE Mr I Bassett LITERATURE GE Pearse, Eighteenth Century Furniture in South Africa, Pretoria, 1960, pages 26 & 27, Fig 34, plate 4 250 A near pair of Chinese flambé- glazed vases each with flared lip and bulbous body, spurious six-character mark in underglaze- blue, 34,5cmhigh; and a Chinese flambé- glazed bottle vase, late 19th/early 20th century, the red glaze streaked with cream and lavender blue, spurious six-character mark in underglaze-blue, 20cmhigh (3) R5 000 – 7 000 252 251 250 part lot 70