Strauss & co - 4 February 2013, Johannesburg

178 A Victorian walnut drop-side table the moulded oval top above a pair of twist supports, on leaf-carved cabriole legs joined by a stretcher, with porcelain castors, 70cm high, 103cmwide open, 90cm deep R5 000 – 7 000 179 A Victorian gilt and silvered-brass agate-mounted clock garniture, English/French, 1871 the 9,5 enamel dial with roman numerals, with bell-striking Japy Frères movement and Brocot escapement, the case of oval form surmounted by a merboy blowing his horn, the shoulders with pierced and engraved handles, the front applied with banded-agate cabochons on foliate and shell engraved reserves, and with a gartered crown above XII, the whole raised on a rectangular stepped base, centred by a shell and coral flanked by hippocampi, on toupie feet, stamped registration mark, the back plate stamped 298, 50cm high, and a pair of conforming three-light candelabra, 44cm high, each with velvet-lined giltwood base, ebonised oval stand on bun feet; with three glass domes, the tallest 62cm high (3) R30 000 – 35 000 180 A mahogany pedestal desk, 19th century the raised back with three folio drawers above three drawers, the lower half with pull-out leather-lined writing surface above three drawers, the left pedestal with divisions, the right with three drawers, on plinth bases, restorations, 101cm high, 115cmwide, 62,5cm deep R10 000 – 15 000 179 180 74