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About this Item
A Cape Regency stinkwood armchair, 19th century
the rectangular panelled top-rail above a reeded lattice back support with conforming mid-rail, reeded arms on reeded supports, riempie seat, on square-section tapering legs joined by a later H-stretcher, minor distress
Provenance
From the Late Lady Ina Oppenheimer Blue Bird Farm Collection.
Literature
cf. Baraitser & Obholzer (2004) Cape Antique Furniture, Struik Publishers, Cape Town, where a near example is illustrated on page 117, fig. 565.