Strauss & co - 13 October 2014, Cape Town

22 32 A pair of Victorian silver- plate candlesticks with glass shades each cylindrical column with foliate knop on a conforming spreading circular foot, with pierced sconce, the mounted rim fitted with a cognac- coloured glass shade, 37,5cm high (2) R9 000–12 000 33 A pair of Edwardian silver-plate three-light candelabra and a pair of candlesticks en suite, William Hutton & Sons, Sheffield, early 20th century each with tapering ribbed column, on a stepped square base moulded with ovolo and swag borders, each candleholder moulded with a double band of acanthus leaves, detachable sconces, the candelabra central light capped by a detachable flame finial, the candlesticks 27,5cm high, the candelabra 48cm high (4) R12 000–15 000 30 32 33 30 A pair of Sheffield plate entrée dishes and covers, early 19th century circular, the rim with foliate gadrooning, the domed cover engraved with an armorial, with acanthus-leaf and berry finial, repairs and splits, 25,5cmdiameter (2) R5 000–7 000 31 A Victorian silver-plated plaque, ‘Much Ado About Nothing’, designed by Léonard Morel-Ladeuil in 1884, Elkington & Co, Sheffield, 1885 rectangular, modelled in relief with a scene from ‘Much Ado About Nothing’, headed by a portrait of William Shakespeare flanked by a pair of putti, the corners with masks, inscribed ‘Morel-Ladeuil fecit 1884’, numbered ‘1311’, 44cm high, 58cmwide R5 000–7 000 NOTES Léonard Morel-Ladeuil was born in 1820 at Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne. At the age of fifteen he began his training in metal sculpture in Paris under Antoine Vechte (1799-1868), who claimed to have been the reviver of artistic repoussé work, and for whom he eventually acted as assistant. In 1859 Morel-Ladeuil signed his first contract with Elkingtons, where he worked until his death in 1888. His most celebrated work, The Milton Shield, widely known from the large number of electrotype copies manufactured by Elkingtons, was shown by the firm at the Paris Exhibition of 1867. The Shield was purchased from the exhibition for the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert Museum). 31