Strauss & co - 18 November 2019, Cape Town

357 Two needlework wall panels, 20th century one stitched with a milkmaid and a young girl with a dog, the other a courting couple, each within a frame with arched pediment centred by a roundel enclosing a Viking ship flanked by mythological sea creatures, the larger 71,8cm high, 53cmwide including frame ; another, stitched with a winter landscape, a shepherd and his sheep, within a frame inscribed ‘Winter’, 61cm high, 44,8cmwide including frame ; and another, stitched with a ship in full sail, within a painted gilt and wooden frame, 67,1cm high, 64,2cm wide (4) R  -  357 358 359 358 An oak deeds box-on-stand, 19th century the moulded rectangular hinged top enclosing two compartments, the front carved with flowerhead rondels and scrolling foliate motifs, the later stand with tapering reeded square-section legs, cracks, restoration, 95,5cm high, 76cmwide, 44,5cm deep R   -   359 A Robert ‘Mouseman’Thomson of Kilburn oak frame with stitched panel of an interior, the arched frame centred by a shield cresting surmounted by the signature mouse, 74,8cm high, 53cmwide R   -   PROVENANCE This lot appears in photographs of Harcroft, Perak, during Charles and Muriel Rycroft’s occupancy post 1945. 122