Strauss & co - 21 October 2013, Cape Town

339 An Edward VII four-piece silver tea service, Williams (Birmingham) Ltd, Birmingham, 1902 comprising: a teapot, hot-water jug, covered milk jug and covered two-handled sugar bowl, each with gadrooned rim, moulded with c-scrolls, foliage and latticework, enclosing a vacant cartouche on either side, the teapot and hot-water jug with wooden harp-shaped handles, 2155g all in, hot water jug 23cm high (4) R12 000 – 15 000 340 An Edward VII silver box in the form of a table, William Comyns & Sons Ltd, London, 1903 of serpertine outline, the hinged pierced cover cast with a cartouche of a couple riding in a carriage with waving attendants, the frieze with leaf and foliate motifs, on cabriole legs headed by acanthus leaves, 230g, 15cmwide R1 500 – 2 000 341 An Edward VII silver salver, Thomas Bradbury & Sons, London, 1903 circular, with reeded rim, the centre engraved with a heron above the motto ‘PARCE QUIL ME PLAIT’ (sic), on three reeded bracket feet, 530g, 25,5cm diameter R4 000 – 6 000 341 340 339 340 detail 129