Strauss & co - 4 February 2013, Johannesburg

228 A Colonial Dutch satinwood, tulipwood, ebony and kingwood parquetry side table, 18th century the rectangular top centring an oval panel with corner spandrels outlined in banding and decorative stringing, the edge and sides in parquetry, above the fluted frieze centring an inset vignette of sailing ships in a bay, banding and corner paterae, on square tapering legs, restorations, 72,5cm high, 93,5cmwide, 56,5cm deep R150 000 – 200 000 cf. A similar table is in the Study at Groot Constantia homestead (no 94 in the inventory), and was damaged during the fire in 1925 in which the vignette drawing was destroyed. A similar example was sold in Cape Town, The Herbert Prins Collection, 21 October 1997, lot 78 229 An Overberg stinkwood side chair, 19th century with curved reeded toprail and a pair of conforming midrails, notched side supports, caned seat, on tapering square-section legs joined by an H-shaped stretcher R3 000 – 4 000 230 A Cape stinkwood and fruitwood Neo- classical armchair, 19th century with triple-arched toprail above a pierced splat, riempie seat, on square-section tapering legs joined by an H-shaped stretcher, restorations R4 000 – 6 000 231 A Cape stinkwood and fruitwood Neo- classical side chair, 19th century with wave-shaped and arched toprail, pierced splat, conforming midrail, riempie seat, on tapering fluted legs joined by an H-shaped stretcher, restorations and replacements R3 000 – 4 000 228 230 231 96