The Contents of Keerweder
Live Auction, 22 - 23 October 2012
Session 2
Lot Estimate
ZAR 120 000 - 150 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 155 960
About this Item
A Cape stinkwood, rosewood and padoukwood commode, circa 1780
the moulded shaped top with outset rounded corners above three long drawers, the lower drawer with a moulded apron, bombé sides, raised on splayed legs, with later turned handles, 88cm high, 142cm wide, 65cm deep
Provenance
Sir Herbert Baker
Sold: Sotheby's, Johannesburg, The Elizabeth Mark Collection, 29 April 1985, lot 102
Sold: Stephan Welz & Co, The Herbert Prins Collection, Cape Town, 21 October 1997, lot 68
Literature
cf. Deon Viljoen, Monique van de Geijn-Verhoeven and others, Domestic Interiors at the Cape and in Batavia 1602-1795, Waanders Uitgevers, Zwolle/Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, 2002, pages 108 & 109
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