Strauss & co - 18 November 2019, Cape Town

417 A pair of George VI silver three-light candlesticks, Robert Edgar Stone, London, 1948 each central column moulded with geometric motifs, headed by a candle sconce with gadrooned collar, the applied side arms headed with further sconces with gadrooned collars, raised on a spreading circular foot, inscribed ‘CHRISTMAS 1948, PRESENTED TO Mr & Mrs C.L. RYCROFT BY STAFF AND LABOUR FORCE, HARCROFT ESTATE’, inscribed RE Stone to the base, 20,5cm high, 1025g all in (2) R  -   PROVENANCE This lot appears in photographs of Harcroft, Perak, during Charles and Muriel Rycroft’s occupancy post 1945. 418 An Irish helmet-shaped sugar basket, Dublin, 1800 the body embossed with flowerheads against a stippled ground, enclosing a pair of c-scroll vacant cartouches, the rim applied with reeded swing-handle, raised on a waisted column and conforming foot, fitted with a later blue glass liner, scratch weights 9-5, 14cm high, 275g ; and an Edward VII silver dish, Charles Westwood & Sons, Birmingham, 1909, navette-shaped with ribbed sides, oxidisation, 22cmwide, 235g (2) R  -   419 A pair of George III silver chambersticks, Edward Barnard I & Rebecca Emes, London, 1818-1820 each tray fitted with an urn-shaped candle sconce, with wavy gadrooned border, the side applied with a shell-shaped thumbpiece, detachable cone-shaped snuffer, detachable drip-pans, engraved with a crest, scratch weights 32”12 and 32”2, lacking wick trimmers, 9,5cm high, 1015g all in (2) R  -   420 An Irish three-piece bachelor’s tea set, John Smith, Dublin, 1882-1885 comprising: a teapot, a two-handled sugar bowl and a milk jug, the teapot’s bulbous body moulded in relief with a band of scrolls enclosing a pair of vacant cartouches, above a band of stiff-leaf decoration, associated leaf-capped handle, the hinged cover with acorn finial, on a spreading circular foot, later wooden fillets, the milk jug and two-handled sugar bowl applied with snake scale handles, the teapot 14,5cm high, 695g all in (3) R  -   417 418 419 420 141