The Contents of Keerweder
Live Auction, 22 - 23 October 2012
Session 2
Lot Estimate
ZAR 15 000 - 20 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
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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