Important South African & International Art, Decorative Arts & Jewellery
Live Auction, 16 March 2015
Continental & Oriental Silver, Furniture and Decorative Arts including a Collection of Italian Glass
Lot Estimate
ZAR 5 000 - 7 000
About this Item
A 'Sèvres' style turquoise and gilt oval dish, late 19th century
the centre painted with a fête galante scene of a family group in eighteenth century attire playing on a see-saw, the cavetto with white and gilt beaded border, streaked wavy gilt rim, the exterior painted with a garland of flowers against a turquoise ground, small restoration to the reverse, underglaze-blue painted mark, 34,5cm wide; a French porcelain cabinet plate, late 19th century, painted to the centre with a basket of flowers, the cavetto and rim with gilt line borders, enclosing a turquoise and foliate gilt band, spurious overglazed Paris mark, 20cm diameter; and another, the centre gilded with musical trophies, the whole with leaf-and-berry borders, swags of summer flowers and highlighted with oval floral medallions, 24cm diameter
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