Strauss & co - 21 October 2013, Cape Town

11 A pair of Batavian Paktong cuspidors, 18th century of baluster outline, raised on a stepped circular foot, minor dent, 34cm high R12 000 – 15 000 NOTES cf. Fehr, William. (1963) Treasures at the Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town: Council of Trustees, William Fehr Collection. A similar example is illustrated on page 96. 12 A Cape teak corner armchair, 18th century with panelled back, caned seat, on square- section legs joined by box-stretchers R50 000 – 70 000 LITERATURE Viljoen, Deon and Rabe, Piér. (2001) Cape Furniture and Metalware, Cape Town and Stellenbosch: Deon Viljoen and Piér Rabe. Illustrated in colour on pages 10-11. NOTES “Cape corner chairs are rare, and the few known examples are almost all illustrated in the literature. A chair very similar to the present example is depicted in the Cape group portrait of JoachimWernich, his wife Anna van Reenen and their two-year-old daughter Elizabeth, painted in 1754 by Pieter Willem Regnault (d. 1765), and now in the South African Cultural History Museum [now in Koopmans de Wet House, Cape Town] … Atmore states that these chairs ‘must have been prize possessions at the Cape from the earliest times and were probably made in the last quarter of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.’[Atmore, M.G. (1965) Cape Furniture, Cape Town. p.60]” Viljoen, Deon and Rabe, Piér. (2001) Cape Furniture and Metalware, Cape Town and Stellenbosch: Deon Viljoen and Piér Rabe. Page 11. 12 THE DR JOHAN BOLT CAPE COLLECTION | LOTS 1-96 21