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 20 000 - 25 000
About this Item
A Cape Neo-classical mulberrywood armchair, early 19th century
the arched top rail above a pierced splat, downcurved arms, caned seat, on tapering square-section legs joined by an H-shaped stretcher
Notes
cf. Pearce G.E. (1960) Eighteenth Century Furniture in South Africa, Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik. A similar chair is illustrated on page 64, number 77. The measured drawing for this chair is illustrated on page 66, plate 13.
cf. Important Cape Furniture from the Collection of Dr Gavin Watkins, Cape Town, sold Stephan Welz & Co in Association with Sotheby's, 29th January 1998, lot 386
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