South African Design: Past & Present

Timed Online Auction, 13 June - 9 July 2025

Cape Interiors: Furniture, Metalware, Silver & Glass
About the Session

This sale traces the heritage of South African design across centuries of creative expression highlighting diverse design objects through two sessions. Uniting the sessions is a celebration of the versatility of materials - metal, wood, glass, clay, fibre - and how artists and artisans have transformed them over time into works of wonder, rich in both tradition and innovation.

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  • A Cape Neo-classical stinkwood rusbank, 19th century
  • A Cape Neo-classical stinkwood rusbank, 19th century
  • A Cape Neo-classical stinkwood rusbank, 19th century
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ZAR 15 000 - 18 000

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A Cape Neo-classical stinkwood rusbank, 19th century
the open rectangular back with plain top rail above four conforming pierced slats and plain bottom rail, riempie seat, on square-section tapering legs joined by an H-stretcher, 182cm long

Notes

The Cape country rusbank followed the stylistic features of Cape chairs. This fiddle-back type of split-splat rusbank appears in the form of a series of chairs, rather than a settee and was in vogue in the early 19th century.

Whilst most early Cape pieces were influenced by European furniture, the rusbank is typically South African and was used as seating for the stoep and hall areas.

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