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 8 000 - 10 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 11 725
About this Item
A Cape stinkwood armchair, early 19th century
the shaped top-rail above a pierced split-splat and shaped bottom rail, riempie seat, on tapered square-section legs joined by an H-shaped stretcher, the reverse of the top-rail inscribed 'WICR 30'
Notes
This chair has a very interesting and unusual back-splat and cannot therefore be placed in any of the regular categories of Neo-classical split-splat chairs.
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