South African Art, Jewellery and Decorative Arts
Live Auction, 4 February 2013
Decorative Arts
Lot Estimate
ZAR 8 000 - 10 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 17 824
Auction Catalogue
About this Item
A Cape stinkwood Neo-classical armchair, early 19th century
the shaped toprail centred by an oval foliate patera above a pierced splat, caned seat, on tapering fluted legs joined by an H-shaped stretcher
Literature
cf. A similar chair is in the collection of the Tongaat Sugar Company, illustrated in GE Pearse, Eighteenth Century Furniture in South Africa, JL Van Schaik Ltd, Pretoria, 1960, page 68, figure 82
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