Strauss & co - 16 October 2017, Cape Town

58 144 Three late Victorian carved carnelian agate and silvered-metal seals in sizes, each with silver terminal set with carved matrixes, the tallest 5,5cm high ; and two further examples, with gilt-metal and silver-engraved terminals, the taller 7,5cm high (5) R –  145 A jewelled silver-gilt and blue guilloché enamel bell-push, possibly Austrian, maker’s initials ‘RL’, .900 standard the compressed bulbous body with beaded border terminating in a cabochon blue-stone push-piece, 4,5cm high R –  146 A French metal-mounted enamel box and cover, 19th century of serpentine outline, the cover painted with a bird before a tree within a cartouche enclosed by a blue-scale ground, the body similarly decorated with sprays of summer flowers, underglaze-blue initials, ‘S.P.’ and applied paper retailer’s label for R.Leroy, 6cm high, 13cm wide ; another, rectangular, the hinged cover hand-painted with a scene of ladies being serenaded, the base and the body decorated with pastoral scenes against a white ground, restored, 5cm high, 13,5cm wide ; another, hand-painted with sprays of flowers, the hinged domed cover decorated with a courting couple, pseudo-Lille mark ‘LILLE 1767’, 4cm high, 8cmwide ; another, hand- painted with a courting couple and sprays of flowers, distortion to the hinge on the one side, firing hairline cracks to the interior, restored, 3cm high, 7cmwide ; and a circular example with gilt-metal-lined interior, the body and hinged cover decorated with pastoral scenes, gilding worn, 2,5cm high, 6,5cm diameter (5) R –  144 145 146