Jewellery, Silver and Furniture

Live Virtual Auction, 28 March 2023

Jewellery, Silver and Furniture
  • A Cape teak and stinkwood bible desk, 18th century and later


Lot Estimate
ZAR 60 000 - 80 000

About this Item

A Cape teak and stinkwood bible desk, 18th century and later

the moulded rectangular fall-front with book support enclosing three drawers above six open compartments, the associated stand with a frieze drawer, raised on upturned baluster and ring-turned legs joined by a moulded H-stretcher, 96,5cm high, 100cm wide, 71cm deep

Provenance

Jan Theron Collection, Tulbagh.

Hazel Daphne Thompson, Kloofburg Waterfall, Outspan, Tulbagh.

Purchased by Dr FW van der Merwe, 5 December 1958 and thence by descent to the current owner.



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