Important Paintings, Furniture, Silver, Ceramics and Jewellery
Live Auction, 15 March 2010
Part II - Furniture and Clocks
Lot Estimate
ZAR 15 000 - 20 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 15 596
About this Item
A kareewood Victor or Fichter side chair, Laingsburg district, circa 1880
the shaped toprail and crossbar carved with roundels, with overscrolled reeded uprights, riempie seat with reeded and scalloped seatrails, on square notched and chamfered carved legs, joined by an H-shaped stretcher
Literature
cf. Michael Baraitser and Anton Obholzer, Cape Antique Furniture, Struik, Cape Town, 2004, p92, pl 442 and colour plate on p220, where similar examples are illustrated