Strauss & co - 17 March 2014, Cape Town

33 53 A pair of Victorian silver wine coasters, maker’s mark CF, London, 1854 each with reeded rim, the body engraved with two crests, with turned wooden base, 14,5cm diameter (2) R12 000–15 000 54 A silver wine coaster, apparently unmarked, 19th century cast with an openwork band of a fruiting vine enclosed by gadrooned rims, the turned wooden base centred by a plain boss, 15cm diameter R3 000–4 000 57 A Victorian silver-mounted glass inkwell, Colen Hewer Cheshire, Birmingham, 1893 the square moulded fluted glass well with conforming hinged, dome-shaped silver cover, with star-cut base, 13,1cm high, 8,7cm square ; and another, William Richard Corke, London, 1894, the circular five-lobed glass well with conforming hinged silver cover, the top engraved with the initials ‘HM’, with star-cut base, 12,3cm high, 9,8cm diameter (2) R4 000–6 000 53 56 54 57 55 55 A Victorian silver chalice, Robert Hennell II, London, 1857 moulded in relief with foliage enclosing a vacant cartouche, raised on three leaf-scroll feet set to a circular base, 220g, 14cm high R1 500–2 000 56 A Victorian silver cake basket, Samuel Hayne & Dudley Cater, London, 1860 oval, the body engraved with acanthus leaves and c-scrolls above moulded arch-shaped panels, the rim with pierced foliate border, the pierced handle with dolphin terminal, on a conforming footrim, 820g, 30cm long R5 000–7 000