Strauss & co - 8 - 11 November 2020

203 A George III mahogany and birds-eye-maple inlaid card table the demi-lune crossbanded top inset with a gilt-tooled maroon leather playing surface, above a frieze inlaid with faux fluting in satinwood centred by a key escutcheon, on square-section tapering legs with brass cappings and castors, restorations, 75cm high, 94,5cmwide, 40,5cm deep R10 000 - 15 000 204 An English japanned longcase clock the movement by Claudius du Chesne, London, second quarter 18th century, the case later , the 28cm silvered dial with Roman numerals, matt gilt centre engraved with a pair of small birds, date aperture at 6 o’clock, subsidiary seconds and hour dials, the corners with pierced mask and foliate spandrels, the arch with silent and strike dial, signed ‘Claudius du Chesne, Londini’, associated bell-striking movement, the sliding hood surmounted by three later brass ball-shaped obelisk finials, glazed sides, the trunk with arched door, raised on a rectangular stepped base, the whole painted with chinoiserie scenes against a red ground with gilt highlights and foliate panels, restorations throughout, 241cm high R20 000 - 30 000 205 A Regency japanned chinoiserie tray-on-stand rectangular with rounded corners, painted with three musicians before a pagoda and a riverscape with a bridge, further buildings, trees and foliage, on later black-painted and gilt stylised bamboo legs with spandrels to the corners, joined by an X-stretcher, now fixed with restorations, 50cm high, 76cmwide, 57,5cm deep R9 000 - 12 000 203 204 205 62