Harcroft House Sale
Live Auction, 18 November 2019
Session Two
Lot Estimate
ZAR 25 000 - 30 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 34 140
Auction Catalogue
About this Item
A Chippendale style flame mahogany breakfront bookcase, early 20th century the carved pagoda top with pierced fret gallery above a frieze of blind fret, a pair of gothic glazed doors below enclosing four glass shelves, flanked by glazed doors enclosing four glass shelves, mirrored back, the base with a pair of doors applied with egg-and-dart and foliate moulding, enclosing a shelf, flanked to either side by four graduating drawers, on carved ogee bracket feet, fitted for electricity, distress to fretwork gallery, 260cm high, 213cm wide, 54cm deep
* The glassware is not included with this lot
Provenance
Sold: Sotheby's, Cape Town, The Contents of Nederberg, 19 and 20 April, 1982, lot 85
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