Strauss & co - 16 March 2015, Cape Town

203 A pair of Neo-Classical style silver candlesticks, maker’s mark possibly an unrecorded mark of Wolf & Knell, Hanau, circa 1905 each square base with canted corners and inverted sides with beaded and guilloche border, the tapering column with ram’s head masks and swags above a spreading fluted support, the stiff-leaf and fluted socket with conforming detachable sconce, one with a split to the base, 30,3cm high, 945g all in (2) R40 000–60 000 203 204 204 A Portuguese silver cup and cover, probably Francisco Ferreira Valente, Oporto, post 1938 the urn-shaped body engraved with oval vacant cartouches enclosed by ribbon and swag borders, the shoulder with beaded border, on a circular spreading foot to a square base on bracket feet, the cover similarly decorated, with urn-shaped finial, 895g, 39cm high R4 000–6 000 75