19th century, Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts and Jewellery

Live Auction, 18 March 2019

Important Cape Furniture and related objects

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  • An important South Western Cape Neoclassical stinkwood and yellowwood inlaid settee, late 18th/early 19th century
  • An important South Western Cape Neoclassical stinkwood and yellowwood inlaid settee, late 18th/early 19th century
  • An important South Western Cape Neoclassical stinkwood and yellowwood inlaid settee, late 18th/early 19th century
  • An important South Western Cape Neoclassical stinkwood and yellowwood inlaid settee, late 18th/early 19th century
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An important South Western Cape Neoclassical stinkwood and yellowwood inlaid settee, late 18th/early 19th century

with four-chair fiddle-back, downswept arms, caned seat, on square-section tapering inlaid legs joined by H-stretchers, 210,5cm long

Exhibited

Gemeentesmuseum, Den Haag, 4 October 2002 to 9 February 2003.

The Slave Lodge, Cape Town, September 2003 to February 2004.

Literature

Michael Baraitser and Anton Obholzer (1986) Cape Country Furniture, Cape Town: Struik. Illustrated on page 128, number 434.

Deon Viljoen and Piér Rabe.(2001) Cape Furniture and Metalware, Cape Town: Deon Viljoen and Piér Rabe. Illustrated on pages 40 and 41, number 22.

Gemeentesmuseum Den Haag (2002) Domestic Interiors at the Cape and in Batavia 1602–1795, Den Haag: Waanders. Illustrated on page 199, number 60.

Michael Baraitser and Anton Obholzer (2004) Cape Antique Furniture, Cape Town: Struik. Illustrated on page 140, number 675.

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