Decorative Arts, Furniture and Jewellery
Live Virtual Auction, 4 - 5 April 2022
Furniture, Silver and Glass
Lot Estimate
ZAR 80 000 - 100 000
About this Item
A Cape teak and stinkwood bible desk, 18th century and later
the moulded rectangular fall-front with book support enclosing three drawers above six open compartments, the associated stand with a frieze drawer, raised on upturned baluster and ring-turned legs joined by a moulded H-stretcher, 96,5cm high, 100cm wide, 71cm deep
Provenance
Jan Theron Collection, Tulbagh.
Hazel Daphne Thompson, Kloofburg Waterfall, Outspan, Tulbagh.
Purchased by Dr FW van der Merwe, 5 December 1958 and thence by descent to the current owner.
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