Important South African & International Art, Decorative Arts & Jewellery
Live Auction, 14 March 2016
Session 2
Lot Estimate
ZAR 80 000 - 100 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 181 888
Shipping
About this Item
A Cape Neo-Classical stinkwood gateleg table, 18th century
the moulded rectangular peg-top with moulded wavy corners above a wavy frieze, on square-section stop-fluted tapering legs carved with flowerheads, 72,5cm high, 200cm long wide open, 155cm deep
Provenance
Formerly the property of Punch and Cynthia Barlow, Vergelegen, Somerset West.
Literature
Michael Baraitser and Anton Obholzer. (1987) Town Furniture of the Cape, Cape Town: Struik. Illustrated on page 150, number 610. 'The finest example of this type we have seen'.
Graham Viney. (1989) Colonial Houses of South Africa, Cape Town: Struik. Illustrated in colour on pages 28 and 29, positioned in the library at Vergelegen.
Michael Baraitser and Anton Obholzer. (2004) Cape Antique Furniture, Cape Town: Struik. Illustrated on page 180, number 840.
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