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

270 A pair of ‘Sèvres’ style gilt-metal-mounted two- handled vases and covers, late 19th century each painted with a classical scene of maidens, putti and dolphins within a gilt scroll frame, the reverse painted with a cartouche of summer flowers against a turquoise ground, the sides applied with female mask and acanthus-leaf handles, each rim with beaded, pierced and foliate border, the domed cover with a fruit-filled urn finial, raised on an octagonal foot headed by a band of acanthus-leaf and scroll-work, restorations, hairline cracks, some loss to the gilding and turquoise ground, 78cmhigh (2) R30 000 - 40 000 271 A Louis XV style bronze jardinière, 19th century the tapering rectangular latticework basket raised on scroll and acanthus- leaf supports, on a waisted stepped plinth base centred by a pine cone finial, restorations, 20,5cm high, 30cmwide, 23cm deep R8 000 - 10 000 272 A pair of French painted and upholstered fauteuilles, 18th/19th century each with padded and closenailed back, side and arms, on curved acanthus-leaf-carved and scrolled supports, stuff-over seat, shell-carved and foliate apron, on cabriole trailing foliate legs (2) R30 000 - 40 000 PROVENANCE De Goede Hoop Estate, Noordhoek, Cape Town. 270 271 272 63