A South Australian Germanic design collector's cabinet by Otto Priess, Mannum South Australia, the central cabinet with multiple doors, flanked by eight side compartments, above a lift front bureau compartment, four drawers and a mirror, on a moulded edge based and ebonised feet, the whole with Gothic style inlay, parquetry and backed fret work, 122 x 205 x 43 cm. Note: examples of Priess's work featuring the same distinctive fretwork featured in the present piece are held in the collections of the National G