Strauss & co - 6 March 2017, Cape Town

74 186 A Victorian silver and glass three-light epergne, Stephen Smith &William Nicholson, London, 1852 cast with a tree issuing three sconces headed by candle sockets, the central branches supporting a cut-glass bowl, with a pair of seated putti below resting on a rocky mound, the front with a vacant cartouche, the reverse with a cartouche engraved with a crest, restorations, 4545g, 61cm high R –  187 A Victorian gilt-metal- mounted micromosaic snuff box, Carlo Giuliano (1831-1895), London, 1862 rectangular, the cover inlaid with a micromosaic panel of a view of the Temple of Vesta, Tivoli, Rome, the hinged cover with rope-twist border, the body with circle and bead border, gilt interior, raised on compressed bun feet, 3,4cm high, 8cmwide R –  186 187