Strauss & co - 18 November 2019, Cape Town

211 Two French porcelain wall plaques, 19th century rectangular, each moulded in high relief with a courting couple before a landscape against a pale-blue ground, minor chips, 23cm high, 17cm (2) R  -   212 A French ‘Sèvres’ porcelain and gilt-bronze mounted clock garniture, circa 1850 the 8cm circular porcelain dial with Roman hour numeral cartouches, enamelled to the centre with butterflies and flowerheads and applied with jewelled markers, striking the full and half hour on a bell, the backplate stamped PARIS 22078 7 and 44 , the dial with beaded frame, surmounted by two winged mythical beasts flanked by baluster finials, the stepped hood surmounted by a flower-filled urn finial, the shaped cartouche painted with a courting couple in a landscape, the gadrooned sides flanked by urns, each painted with figures in a landscape, on a stepped and foliate shaped plinth base and paw and toupie- shaped feet, and a pair of urns, en suite, each plaque inscribed Picard Ratel 1904 K to the reverse, the clock 44cm high (3) R  -   213 A gilt-gesso low table, 20th century the rectangular moulded top inset with a needlework panel stitched with flowerheads and foliage, foliate-shaped and flowerhead apron, on acanthus-headed cabriole legs with pad feet, on castors, loose glass top, 6,5cm high, 109cmwide, 78,5cm deep R  -   This lot appears in photographs of Harcroft, Cape Town, during Charles and Muriel Rycroft’s occupancy post 1951 214 A Louis XVI style giltwood and upholstered salon suite, 19th century comprising: a settee, a pair of carvers and six side chairs; each padded back within a carved frame surmounted by rose buds and foliage, shaped padded arms, stuff-over serpentine seat, on restrained cabriole legs, on castors, restorations, the settee 186cm long (9) R  -   PROVENANCE Sold: Sotheby’s Cape Town, The Contents of Nederberg, 19th and 20th April, 1982, lot 239 214 213 211 212 83