The Contents of Keerweder

Live Auction, 22 - 23 October 2012

Session 2

Sold for

ZAR 33 420
Lot 306
  • A kareewood Victor or Fichter side chair, Laingsburg district, circa 1880


Lot Estimate
ZAR 15 000 - 20 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 33 420
Auction Catalogue

About this Item

A kareewood Victor or Fichter side chair, Laingsburg district, circa 1880
the curved toprail and crossbar carved with roundels and flanked by overscroll reeded uprights, riempie seat with grooved and shaped seatrails and apron, on square notched and chamfered carved legs joined by an H-stretcher

Provenance

Sold: Stephan Welz & Co, The Herbert Prins Collection, 21 and 22 October, 1997, lot 107

Literature

Michael Baraitser & Anton Obholzer, Cape Country Furniture, second revised edition, Struik, Cape Town, 1978, page 88, illustration no 290. According to local tradition, Victor chairs were made by a shepherd of that name while tending his flock, using a pockeknife.



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