Strauss & co - 6 March 2017, Cape Town

76 192 A Victorian four-piece silver ‘Greek-Revival’ tea set, Martin Hall & Co, London, 1875 comprising: a teapot, a coffee pot, a two-handled sugar bowl and a milk jug, urn-shaped, engraved with stylised scenes from Greek mythology, the rims with ovolo borders, raised on a stepped circular base, the hinged cover surmounted by a finial in the form of a Spartan helmet enclosed by a band of foliage, the sides applied with bifurcated and scroll handles, gilt interiors, 2295g all in, the coffee pot 28cm high (4) R –  *This lot is not suitable for export. 193 A Victorian silver snuff box, George Unite & Sons, Birmingham, 1875 rectangular, the hinged cover with engine-turned panel enclosed by a foliate border, foliate thumbpiece, gilt interior and conforming base, 125g, 7,4cmwide ; and a Victorian silver vinaigrette, Nathaniel Mills, Birmingham, 1841, the hinged rectangular cover engraved with a vacant cartouche enclosed by scrolls, scroll thumbpiece enclosing a hinged pierced grille, gilt interior, the base similarly engraved, 15g, 3,2cmwide (2) R –  194 A Victorian silver inkstand, George Fox, London, 1885 the pierced rectangular frame fitted with a pair of detachable glass silver-mounted ink bottles flanking open compartments, the wavy pierced stand with gadrooned border, pierced foliate sides and a pair of vacant cartouches, raised on bead, leaf and scroll feet, the frame 600g, 22,5cmwide R –  192 193 194