Important South African & International Art, Furniture, Decorative Arts & Jewellery
Live Auction, 17 March 2014
Cape, Colonial, Oriental & Continental Silver, Furniture & Decorative Arts
Lot Estimate
ZAR 40 000 - 50 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 130 732
About this Item
A pair of Cape stinkwood Tulbagh side chairs, 18th century
each with wave-shaped back centring an oval caned panel, baluster-turned side supports headed by turned finials, caned seat, on baluster-turned legs joined by stretchers, with bun feet
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Provenance
Dr William Frederick Purcell (1866-1919) and thence by descent. William Purcell was an arachnologist and biologist and was involved with the restoration of Koopmans De Wet House Museum, Cape Town. He was a well known collector of Cape furniture
Literature
Baraitser, Michael and Obholzer Anton, (1987) Town Furniture of the Cape, Cape Town: Struik, illustrated on page 164, number 670. Baraitser, Michael and Obholzer Anton, (1978) Cape Country Furniture, Cape Town: Struik, illustrated on page 30, number 42.
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