Strauss & co - 13 October 2014, Cape Town

44 103 A Victorian mahogany pedestal desk the rectangular moulded top with gilt-tooled green leather writing surface above three frieze drawers, with three graduated drawers to each pedestal, on a moulded plinth base with castors, 74cm high, 152cmwide, 78,5cm deep R20 000–25 000 103 104 A George II style mahogany four- chair back settee each chair back with dished and scroll-end top rail above a pierced splat headed by birds’heads and applied with foliate roundels, with outcurved scroll arm supports, drop-in seat, on leaf-carved cabriole legs, claw and ball feet, 165cmwide R20 000–25 000 105 A set of mahogany metamorphic library steps, early 20th century the rectangular twin panelled gilt-tooled green leather surface metamorphosing into four steps with leather-lined treads, 71cm high open, 70cm wide, 44cm deep R12 000–15 000 105 104