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.


Sold for

ZAR 5 863
Lot 8
  • A Cape stinkwood Neo-classical armchair, early 19th century
  • A Cape stinkwood Neo-classical armchair, early 19th century
  • A Cape stinkwood Neo-classical armchair, early 19th century
  • A Cape stinkwood Neo-classical armchair, early 19th century


Lot Estimate
ZAR 8 000 - 10 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 5 863

About this Item

A Cape stinkwood Neo-classical armchair, early 19th century
the shaped top rail above a pierced split-splat and stepped bottom rail, outsplayed arms, riempie seat, on square-section tapering legs joined by an H- shaped stretcher

Notes

Split-splat armchairs show the same pattern variations as the side chairs. This armchair is a good example of a typical three-slot split-splat, decorated with a crest on the the top and a stepped bottom rail.



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