Strauss & co - 7 October 2019, Cape Town

113 424 An assembled set of twelve No 4 Café Daum bentwood fruitwood Secessionist dining chairs, including an armchair, manufactured by Joseph Thonet, late 19th century each with caned seat, chips, losses, stamped in black JJ Kohn, Austria, paper labels J&J Kohn, Wien, paper label Thonet, Wien, stamped JJ Kohn, Wien, Austria (12) R30 000 - 35 000 425 A pair of Emile Gallé Nancy St Clément blue and white faience candle holders, 19th century each modelled as a seated roaring lion with its tail wrapped around its body, presenting a turret with its front paws enclosed by foliage, on an oval pierced and swirled base, chips, signed Gallé Nancy and St Clement, in underglaze-blue, 24cm high (2) R9 000 - 12 000 PROVENANCE De Goede Hoop Estate, Noordhoek, Cape Town. 426 Four Emile Gallé à Nancy St Clément blue and white two-handled baskets, 19th century oval, each with two pierced cartouches centred by a medallion painted with the thistle of Lorraine below birds in flight flanked by two scrolling foliate flower- filled towers interspersed with rectangular vacant cartouches and pierced interlocking scrollwork incorporating a pair of scroll handles, shaped apron, on four outswept tapering square-section feet, chips, one printed Gallé à Nancy in underglaze-blue, the other three with Gallé Nancy and St Clément, the largest 26cmwide over handles (4) R12 000 - 15 000 PROVENANCE De Goede Hoop Estate, Noordhoek, Cape Town. 424 426 425