Strauss & co - 8 October 2009, Cape Town

84 189 A highly important Cape coromandel and silver-mounted buffet, mid 18th century the rectangular top with serpentine front above a pair of fielded panelled doors enclosing a drawer, flanked by four drawers and a deep drawer, each side with a slide and a loper, on leaf-carved scroll feet, the apron carved with foliage, c-scrolls and rocaille, the silver mounts and escutcheon plates fully marked Johannes Casparus Lotter, 78,5cm high, 130cmwide, 63cm deep R550 000 – 650 000 By family repute, this piece was believed to be one of a pair owned by Baron Joachim von Plettenberg, Governor of the Cape, 1771-1785, and was presented by him as a wedding gift to Johan Sebastian Leibbrandt, (1747-1817). It has been in the Leibbrandt family for six generations, and was inherited by the current owner in 1968. Detail