Cape Furniture and Metalware
Timed Online Auction, 3 - 11 July 2023
Session 1
Lot Estimate
ZAR 6 000 - 8 000
About this Item
A Cape Neo-Classical stinkwood side chair, early 19th century
the arched top-rail centred by an oval floral patera above a pierced splat, with caned seat, on tapering square-section legs joined by an H-stretcher
early 19th century
Literature
Michael Baraitser and Anton Oberholzer (1987) Town Furniture of the Cape, Cape Town: Struik. A similar example of stylized carving illustrated on page 177, number 728 and 729.Other lots that might interest you
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