South African Design: Past & Present
Timed Online Auction, 13 June - 9 July 2025
Cape Interiors: Furniture, Metalware, Silver & Glass
About the SessionThis 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.
Lot Estimate
ZAR 9 000 - 11 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 14 070
About this Item
Two Cape stinkwood kerkstoele, 19th century
each with a plain shaped top-rail and mid-rail, caned seat, on square-section tapering legs, one inscribed 'A.J.F du Toit' the other 'MEJ A.P. RETIEF. 1884'
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Notes
In the early days, most churches did not have pews and congregants had to bring their own chairs which were marked on the back with the owner's name.
Provenance
Strooidak Kerk, Paarl.
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