Strauss & co - 18 November 2019, Cape Town

225 224 223 226 223 A German figural lace group, early 20th century modelled with a pair of ladies, one holding a book, the other a basket of flowers in her left hand, on a c-scroll white and gilt base highlighted with sprays of flowers, black printed factory mark, the lace with some damage, 25cm high ; another, modelled with a seated young lady observing her cat, green printed factory mark, impressed ‘8340’, 20cm high ; a Bonn example, modelled as a gallant and his companion dancing, on a white glazed shell and c-scroll base, gilt highlights, blue factory mark, 21cm high ; and a Dresden example, modelled with a young lady and her dog, lacking left index finger, underglaze-blue factory mark, 15cm high (4) R  -   224 A Continental figural group of the card players, early 20th century modelled with four figures dressed in eighteenth century attire seated around a table playing cards, impressed ‘04’, 17,5cm high ; a Sitzendorf figural group, late 19th/early 20th century, modelled with a gallant and his companion, on a white and gilt c-scroll base, underglaze-blue factory mark, 14,5cm high ; and five Continental figures, 20th century, each at various pursuits, on a shaped blue and gilt base, painted numerals, the taller 8,5cm high (7) R  -   225 A Japanese Arita blue and white and lacquered jar and cover, 18th century the hexagonal body with alternating panels of prunus blossom, cranes and ‘The Three Friends’, divided by three lacquer panels of cranes in flight before Mount Fuji and dwellings, the shoulders with gilt lacquer lappets, raised on a pierced conforming foot, the lacquer cover with porcelain neck and spire-shaped finial, decorated with key-fret and foliate bands, the conforming base, set with Kutani iron-red and gilt panels, restorations, chips and lacquer loss, 56cm high all in R  -   226 A Napoleon III boulle, tortoiseshell and gilt-metal- mounted centre table the oval-shaped top centred by floral and scrolling foliate marquetry, enclosed by a conforming ebonised panel, acanthus-leaf and dart moulded rim, the shaped frieze applied with four gilt-metal mounted masks interspersed with panels of tortoiseshell and boulle marquetry, centred by a long drawer, on cabriole legs applied with caratyd mounts, terminating in lion-paw sabots, some distress, 76cm high, 146cmwide, 92cm deep R  -   *This lot is not suitable for export This lot appears in photographs of Harcroft, Cape Town, during Charles and Muriel Rycroft’s occupancy post 1951. 86