Strauss & co - 13 October 2014, Cape Town

52 120 A Louis XVI/Transitional style marble-topped kingwood, parquetry and marquetry gilt-metal mounted commode, early 20th century the rectangular serpentine mottled grey and cream marble top above three frieze drawers with a pair of conforming drawers below, inlaid with a marquetry panel with an urn, a basket of fruit and ribbons, canted corners on cabriole legs with brass paw sabot feet, the marble top restored, 86cm high, 117,5cmwide, 58,5cm deep R12 000–15 000 PROVENANCE Miss Hilda Holt The Contents of Nederberg, Cape Town, 19th and 20th April 1982, lot 27. 121 A Louis XV style walnut and marquetry desk, late 19th/ early 20th century the gilt-metal-mounted serpentine top inset with a gilt-tooled brown leather writing surface enclosed by masks and satyrs above a frieze drawer, on cabriole legs, the feet with sabot mounts, 72,5cm high, 136,5cmwide, 70cm deep R15 000–18 000 122 An Italian ebonised and bone-inlaid Savonarola armchair, 19th century the shaped arched back inlaid with a profile bust of a monk flanked by masks, wings and leafy scrolls, square-section arms, curved side supports, solid seat, on conforming X-frame base, some bone loss R4 000–6 000 121 120 122