South African Art, Jewellery and Decorative Arts
Live Auction, 6 February 2012
Part 3 - Furniture & Fine Art
Lot Estimate
ZAR 300 000 - 400 000
About this Item
A Cape stinkwood armoire, late 18th/early 19th century the moulded arched hood with shaped cresting carved with scalework flanked by foliage above a pair of panelled doors enclosing four shelves and two drawers, three graduated linenfold long drawers below, with panelled sides, on later ogee feet, 269cm high, 172cm wide, 70cm deep
Provenance
The Van Blommestein family, and thence by descent
Literature
Michael Baraitser and Anton Obholzer, Cape Antique Furniture, Struik, Cape Town, 2004, page 254, illustration number 1079
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