Strauss & co - 16 March 2015, Cape Town

226 A ‘Sèvres’ style turquoise and gilt oval dish, late 19th century the centre painted with a fête galante scene of a family group in eighteenth century attire playing on a see-saw, the cavetto with white and gilt beaded border, streaked wavy gilt rim, the exterior painted with a garland of flowers against a turquoise ground, small restoration to the reverse, underglaze-blue painted mark, 34,5cmwide ; a French porcelain cabinet plate, late 19th century, painted to the centre with a basket of flowers, the cavetto and rim with gilt line borders, enclosing a turquoise and foliate gilt band, spurious overglazed Paris mark, 20cm diameter ; and another, the centre gilded with musical trophies, the whole with leaf-and- berry borders, swags of summer flowers and highlighted with oval floral medallions, 24cm diameter (3) R5 000–7 000 227 A ‘Sèvres’ style porcelain and gilt-metal-mounted garniture, late 19th century comprising: a mantel clock, the dial painted with Roman numerals enclosed by a turquoise ground, the centre painted with summer flowers and a butterfly, with Japy Frères bell- striking movement, the architectural case surmounted by a porcelain two-handled urn, the sides with tapering columns headed by bud finials, pine cone finials below, the front inset with a porcelain plaque of a couple attending a young boy, the lower section with further porcelain panels painted with flowers and birds, raised on beaded toupie feet, one panel repaired, oxidisation, some beading loss, the clock not in working order, 49cm high, the dial 9,5cm diameter ; and a pair of candelabra, similarly decorated, restoration to one urn, oxidisation, some beading loss, 55cm high (3) R20 000–25 000 227 226 84