Important South African & International Art, Furniture, Decorative Arts & Jewellery
Live Auction, 17 March 2014
Cape, Colonial, Oriental & Continental Silver, Furniture & Decorative Arts
Lot Estimate
ZAR 300 000 - 350 000
About this Item
A Cape Transitional stinkwood and yellowwood cabinet-on-stand, late 18th century
the moulded architectural cornice above a star-inlaid panel, a pair of double panelled doors below, each panel with a star-inlay, enclosing two shelves and two short drawers, the moulded stand with a pair of frieze drawers, raised on square-section tapering legs joined by a wavy cross-stretcher, on block feet, 221cm high, 138cm wide, 69cm deep
Notes
cf. A similar example sold Stephan Welz & Co. in Association with Sotheby's, Cape Town, The Collection of Dr Gavin Watkins, 29 January 1998, lot 364
Literature
Baraitser, Michael, and Obholzer, Anton. (1987) Town Furniture of the Cape, Cape Town: Struik. A similar example is illustrated on page 58, numbers 175, 176 and 177.
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