Strauss & co - 10 - 11 May 2020, Cape Town

257 A Victorian oak cigar box modelled as a sentry box with slatted sides and roof, the arched glazed front set with a watercolour of a uniformed guardsman possibly by Richard Simkin, enclosing four drawers, in sizes , on a plinth base, 54cm high, 23cmwide, 23cm deep R15 000 - 20 000 258 A Victorian walnut and gilt-metal- mounted desk the kidney-shaped top inset with a gilt-tooled brown leather writing surface above a frieze drawer, on chamfered cabriole legs with gilt-metal mounts and sabots, 74cm high, 115cmwide, 58cm deep R8 000 - 10 000 259 An Edwardian satinwood and painted table-top vitrine the hinged glazed trefoil top enclosing a green silk interior, the conforming frieze painted with sprays of roses on three square-section outswept legs joined by a stretcher centred by a triangular platform, some veneer losses and overpainting, 75cm high, 46cmwide, 42cm deep R4 000 - 6 000 260 A Carter Stabler & Adams Ltd Poole Pottery stoneware ‘Harpy Eagle’ by Harold Stabler, 1916 realistically rendered, perched on a rocky outcrop glazed with marbleised shades of green, apricot and dark brown, firing faults to the bird’s crest, chips, impressed HAROLD STABLER 1916, 65,7cm high R15 000 - 20 000 PROVENANCE De Goede Hoop Estate, Noordhoek, Cape Town. 261 A Tiffany & Co silver ‘Windham’ pattern four-light centrepiece, 1947-1956, .925 sterling the central bowl with everted rim raised on four scroll feet each headed by a nozzle, engraved TIFFANY & Co, MAKERS, STERLING SILVER 23312 M, 41cm diameter, 1005g R30 000 - 40 000 258 257 259 261 260 58