Strauss & co - 12 October 2015, Cape Town

137 A Meissen figure of a parrot, late 19th century after a model by JJ Kändler, realistically modelled and painted with green, blue and red plumage, a gold collar encircling his neck, perched on a tree stump clutching two cherries in his left claws, restored tail and foliage, underglaze-blue crossed swords, impressed ‘A43 148’, 43cm high ; and a VEB Sächsiche Porzellan- Manufaktur Dresden figure of a parrot, 20th century, after the Meissen model, restoration, 46cm high (2) R8 000–10 000 PROVENANCE The Meissen parrot is from the Caesar Schlesinger Collection, Mymering, Beach Road, Muizenberg. 138 A French upholstered and walnut bergère the shaped frame carved with c-scroll and leaf crestings, with outcurved arm supports, on leaf-and flowerhead-carved cabriole legs R5 000–6 000 139 After Claude Michel Clodion, late 19th/early 20th century A gilt-bronze group of bacchante and a faun cast signature ‘Clodion 1867’, stamped ‘4107’ 60cm high with a marble plinth, 12,5cm high, 29cm square R40 000–50 000 137 138 139 60