Important South African & International Art, Decorative Arts & Jewellery
Live Auction, 14 March 2016
Session 2
Lot Estimate
ZAR 400 000 - 500 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 704 816
About this Item
A pair of Cape Neo-Classical stinkwood, yellowwood, amboyna-veneered and inlaid side tables, late 18th/early 19th century
each rectangular top with outset corners, above a frieze inlaid with feather and shell motifs, on tapering square-section legs with brass feet inlaid with ebonised and fruitwood stringing, repairs, 76cm high, 78cm wide, 43cm deep
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Notes
cf. GE Pearse. (1960) Eighteenth Century Furniture in South Africa, Pretoria: JL van Schaik. Page 82, Fig 101 where a table of similar construction is illustrated.
Provenance
Formerly the property of Punch and Cynthia Barlow, Vergelegen, Somerset West.