Strauss & co - 16 October 2017, Cape Town

86 236 A Victorian silver entreé dish and cover, Elkington & Co, Birmingham, 1853 of lobed navette outline, the moulded rim embossed with foliate and floral motifs, the cover engraved with two crests, the detachable handle with conforming decoration, 38cmwide, 2105g all in R –  237 A Victorian silver-gilt-mounted travelling dressing-table set, James Vickery, Wells & Lambe, London, 1866 rectangular, the leather-lined interior fitted with a mirror, seven glass bottles, three covered boxes, nail and medicine accoutrements, each moulded with the initials ‘ACD’, the side with a secret drawer enclosing two ivory-backed hairbrushes, a clothes-brush, an ivory glove-stretcher and a covered box, the front with a velvet-lined jewellery drawer, contained in a brass- bound simulated coromandel case, manufactured and retailed by Wells & Lambe, an embossed leather panel on the inside of the lid marked ‘WELLS & LAMBE MANUFACTURERS TO THE QUEEN, COCKSPUR STREET’, 21cm high, 34cmwide, 380g of weighable silver R –  *This lot is not suitable for export. 238 A Victorian silver-mounted dressing table mirror, Henry William Dee, London, 1869 the arched rectangular engine-turned frame moulded with mask and bead border, surmounted and flanked by pierced scroll panels depicting fruit, garlands and putti, engine-turned silver back and bifurcated silver easel support, 51cm high, 47cmwide R –  236 237 238