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Provenance
Stephan Welz & Co in association with Sotheby’s, Cape Town, Important Cape Furniture from the Collection of Mr Herbert Prins, 21 & 22 October 1997, lot 60.
Deon Viljoen & Guus Röell, Cape Town, 2003.
A similar chair was sold by Sotheby’s Property from the Estate Late Jocelyn Purcell, Groot Constantia, Cape Town, 11 December, 1985, lot 14.
Property of a Collector.
Literature
Deon Viljoen & Guus Röell (2003) Uit Verre Streken, Cape Town & Maastricht exhibition catalogue, Ince Cape (Pty) Ltd, illustration No 6.
Mathilda Burden (2015) Old Cape Furniture Studies in styles, SUN MeDIA, Stellenbosch, illustrated on page 98, fig. 224.
cf. Mathilda Burden (2015) Old Cape Furniture Studies in styles, SUN MeDIA, Stellenbosch, illustrated on page 98, fig. 223, where a near example is illustrated from the Oude Kerk Volksmuseum in Tulbagh.
cf. G. E. Pearse (1960) Eighteenth Century Furniture in South Africa, Pretoria, illustrated on page 55, pl. 63, where a near example is illustrated from Groote Schuur.