Important South African & International Art, Decorative Arts & Jewellery
Live Auction, 6 March 2017
Jewellery, Foreign Silver, Decorative Arts, Furniture, 20th Century Ceramics, Glass and Collectables
Lot Estimate
ZAR 12 000 - 16 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 14 779
About this Item
A Sèvres style gilt-metal mounted porcelain pedestal bowl, late 19th century
signed C.Rochette, the oval body painted with a pastoral scene of a courting couple, the reverse painted with a landscape enclosed by foliate borders, the sides applied with ribbed and foliate scroll handles, the interior painted with garlands of summer flowers against a white ground, raised on a tapering column and moulded base, on a leaf-and-berry plinth with bracket feet, overpainted pseudo Sèvres mark, 32,7cm high; and a pair of porcelain and gilt-metal mounted cassolettes, late 19th century, each urn-shaped body painted with a tableau of the Muses, the detachable covers with pineapple finials, raised on a fluted column, applied in relief with a leaf-and-berry swag, on a square stepped plinth base, chips, gilding loss, formerly with chains, 34cm high
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