Cape Furniture and Metalware

Timed Online Auction, 3 - 11 July 2023

Session 1
  • A Cape Neo-Classical stinkwood side chair, early 19th century


Lot Estimate
ZAR 6 000 - 8 000

About this Item

A Cape Neo-Classical stinkwood side chair, early 19th century
the arched top-rail centred by an oval floral patera above a pierced splat, with caned seat, on tapering square-section legs joined by an H-stretcher
early 19th century

Literature

Michael Baraitser and Anton Oberholzer (1987) Town Furniture of the Cape, Cape Town: Struik. A similar example of stylized carving illustrated on page 177, number 728 and 729.


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