Strauss & co - 22 October 2012, Cape Town

306 A kareewood Victor or Fichter side chair, Laingsburg district, circa 1880 the curved toprail and crossbar carved with roundels and flanked by overscroll reeded uprights, riempie seat with grooved and shaped seatrails and apron, on square notched and chamfered carved legs joined by an H-stretcher R15 000 – 20 000 Sold: Stephan Welz & Co, The Herbert Prins Collection, Cape Town, 21 and 22 October, 1997, lot 107 LITERATURE Michael Baraitser & Anton Obholzer, Cape Country Furniture, second revised edition, Struik, Cape Town, 1978, page 88, illustration no 290. According to local tradition, Victor chairs were made by a shepherd of that name while tending his flock, using a pocketknife. 307 A kareewood Victor or Fichter side chair, Laingsburg district, circa 1880 the wave-shaped toprail inlaid with circles, the midrail inlaid with a flowerhead flanked by overscroll reeded uprights, riempie seat, the wavy seatrails above an apron carved with a row of roundels, on square notched and chamfered carved legs joined by an H-stretcher R15 000 – 20 000 LITERATURE Michael Baraitser & Anton Obholzer, Cape Country Furniture, Struik, Cape Town, 1986, page 89, illustration no 291. 305 A Cape stinkwood and teak side chair, 18th century the shaped toprail above a vase- shaped splat and conforming midrail, with baluster-turned side supports, riempie seat, on baluster-turned legs joined by stretchers, on rounded feet, restorations R6 000 – 8 000 Finch & Co, 2 Old Brompton Road, London, 18 November 2004 305 307 306 88