Strauss & co - 18 November 2019, Cape Town

192 A chinoiserie style gilt gesso mirror, late 19th/early 20th century in the Chippendale style , the oval plate within a conforming c-scroll surround, the frame surmounted by scrolling acanthus leaves and flowerheads trailing to each side and supported on small pedestals, conforming apron, losses and re-gilding in areas, cracks, 180cm high, 118cmwide R  -   193 A Victorian steel and gilt fire screen each baluster and scroll support surmounted by an urn-shaped finial, a red and gold brocade curtain hung between rods and rings, on four scroll feet, 100,5cm high, 141cmwide R  -   PROVENANCE Sold: The Collection of Hugh Tevis, Esq., Monterey, Constantia, 17 March 1952, lot 118 194 A set of four Continental biscuit porcelain plaques, late 19th century circular, modelled in high relief as the Four Seasons represented by figures of maidens and children, with gilt frame, each plaque 24cm diameter (4) R  -   195 A French kingwood, Vernis Martin gilt-metal mounted vitrine cabinet, late 19th century the shaped wavy pediment surmounted by a pierced acanthus-leaf cresting above a frieze headed by a pair of female terms, the conforming glazed door below with a Vernis Martin panel decorated with a courting couple in a landscape, enclosing two later shaped glass shelves and a fabric-lined shelf, mirrored back, the glazed sides decorated with putti, on restrained cabriole legs mounted with gilt-metal sabots, the central panel signed Hameau, fitted for electricity, 206cm high, 132cmwide, 45cm deep R  -   192 193 194 195 79