Strauss & co - 12 October 2015, Cape Town

284 A Victorian walnut three-tiered whatnot the serpentine shaped top shelf with three- quarter pierced gallery headed by finials, each tier united by baluster supports, the lower shelf fitted with a drawer, raised on ring-turned feet heightened with bosses, on porcelain castors with brass cappings, 110cm high, 54cmwide, 39cm deep R4 000–5 000 285 A Victorian mahogany metamorphic library chair the back with two cross-bars pierced and moulded with diamond-shaped bosses, the hinged solid seat converting to four leather-lined treads, 89cm high, 51cmwide open, 43cm deep R3 000–4 000 286 A camphorwood and brass- mounted military chest-on-chest, 19th century the rectangular top above a pair of deep drawers and three graduated long drawers below, the sides with brass carrying-handles, on ring- turned feet, the front inlaid with stringing, 117cm high, 104cmwide, 48,5cm deep R30 000–40 000 287 A Victorian burr-walnut and walnut centre table the circular tilt-top above a freize carved with foliate paterae, set on a lotus and cabochon carved central column and four ring-turned columnar supports, on leaf-carved cabriole legs and scroll feet, brass and porcelain castors, 71cm high, 144cm diameter R15 000–20 000 285 286 115