Strauss & co - 5 March 2018, Cape Town

120 324 A French four-piece silver-gilt tea and coffee set, Paris, post 1838, .950 standard comprising: a teapot, a coffee pot, a covered sugar bowl and milk jug, each with reeded and ribboned borders, the harp-shaped handles with foliate terminals, each cover with pineapple finial, the teapot 22,5cm high, 1970g all in ; and a pair of French silver sugar tongs, 19th century, .925 standard, with claw terminals, 40g (5) R –  325 Two pairs of Russian silver champagne flutes, Itska Lozinsky, Moscow, 892-1908 in sizes, each tapering body engraved with sprays of flowers, raised on a beaded knopped stem, set on a stepped circular foot, two engraved with initials, the tallest 18,5cm high, 320g all in ; and another example, maker’s initials ‘B.M.P’, Kokoshnik mark, similarly engraved, 15,5cm high, 65g (5) R –  326 A Russian silver and enamel caddy spoon, Yakov Nikolayevich Lyapunov, St Petersburg, 1898-1903 the reverse of the bowl and the front of the handle with stylised polychrome enamel decoration within a white beaded border, 30g R –  327 A set of Dutch silver and ivory- mounted tea-making accoutrements, late 19th/early 20th century, .833 standard comprising; twelve teaspoons, a tea-leaf shovel, a tea strainer and a pair of sugar tongs, 210g all in ; contained a mahogany fitted presentation case, with domed hinged cover, red-velvet lined interior, 5,5cm high, 19cmwide (16) R –  324 325 326 327