Strauss & co - 6 March 2017, Cape Town

43 97 A Sévres style gilt-metal mounted porcelain pedestal bowl, late 19th century signed C.Rochette , the oval body painted with a pastoral scene of a courting couple, the reverse painted with a landscape enclosed by foliate borders, the sides applied with ribbed and foliate scroll handles, the interior painted with garlands of summer flowers against a white ground, raised on a tapering column and moulded base, on a leaf-and- berry plinth with bracket feet, overpainted pseudo Sèvres mark, 32,7cm high; and a pair of porcelain and gilt-metal mounted cassolettes, late 19th century, each urn-shaped body painted with a tableau of the Muses, the detachable covers with pineapple finials, raised on a fluted column, applied in relief with a leaf-and-berry swag, on a square stepped plinth base, chips, gilding loss, formerly with chains, 34cm high (3) R – 