March Interiors
Timed Online Auction, 20 March - 2 April 2025
Furniture
Lot Estimate
ZAR 2 000 - 4 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 2 345
Location
Cape Town
Delivery
Additional delivery charges apply
Shipping
About this Item
An Arts and Crafts mahogany canterbury, 19th century
with three open divisions headed by turned finials at the corners, fluted rectangular top rails, uprights and sides over a similar base with cross stretchers, raised on square-section legs with castors, 41cm high, 49cm wide, 34cm deep
Notes
Canterburies are used to today as magazine racks but were originally used to store sheet music. The word first appeared in Thomas Sheraton's Dictionary of 1803 and they were so called because the bishop was the first to give orders for these pieces.
In the 1880s a number of craftsmen and architects formed guilds and associations in an attempt to get away from the prevailing mass produced styles and reproductions of the commercial furniture trade. This became known as the Arts and Crafts movement.
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