Important South African and International Art, Decorative Arts & Jewellery
Live Auction, 16 October 2017
Jewellery, Watches, European and Oriental Decorative Arts
Lot Estimate
ZAR 4 000 - 6 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 12 505
About this Item
A French metal-mounted enamel box and cover, 19th century
of serpentine outline, the cover painted with a bird before a tree within a cartouche enclosed by a blue-scale ground, the body similarly decorated with sprays of summer flowers, underglaze-blue initials, ‘S.P.’ and applied paper retailer’s label for R.Leroy, 6cm high, 13cm wide; another, rectangular, the hinged cover hand-painted with a scene of ladies being serenaded, the base and the body decorated with pastoral scenes against a white ground, restored, 5cm high,13,5cm wide; another, hand-painted with sprays of flowers, the hinged domed cover decorated with a courting couple, pseudo-Lille mark ‘LILLE 1767’, 4cm high, 8cm wide; another, hand-painted with a courting couple and sprays of flowers, distortion to the hinge on the one side, firing hairline cracks to the interior, restored, 3cm high, 7cm wide; and a circular example with gilt-metal-lined interior, the body and hinged cover decorated with pastoral scenes, gilding worn, 2,5cm high, 6,5cm diameter
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