Strauss & co - 10 October 2016, Cape Town

212 A pair of late Victorian silver novelty flower bowls, Lambert & Co, London, 1896 boat-shaped, each end surmounted by half-naked female terms, the sides moulded with swags of foliage flanking masks, raised on a shallow oval foot rim, stamped Lambert, Coventry Street, London, 1300g all in, 23,5cm long (2) R12 000–15 000 213 A Victorian silver-mounted easel-back mirror, William Comyns & Sons, London, 1896 pierced and embossed with angels, figures of Pan, masks and satyrs, flowers and scrolls, the cresting with a vacant cartouche, against a velvet-lined backing, bevelled glass, restorations and replacements, 53,8cm high R8 000–10 000 214 Two silver sugar baskets, apparently unmarked, late 19th century each pierced frame with rope borders raised on a spreading circular foot, applied with birds and ribbon-tied swags of flowers flanking a c-scroll cartouche engraved with the initial ‘H’, with hinged twist-turned handle, scratch weights 3-5, 5=5, 245g all in, the taller 10,2cm high; fitted with blue glass liners (2) R3 000–4 000 212 213 214 90