Strauss & co - 21 October 2013, Cape Town

102 A Cape stinkwood armchair, 1795 the stepped arched toprail above a pierced splat with conforming bottom rail, shaped grooved outcurved arms, caned seat, the shaped seatrail reverse carved with the initials ‘DMB’ and the date ‘1795’, on tapering square-section fluted legs joined by an H-stretcher, on block feet, restorations R40 000 – 50 000 NOTES cf. Baraitser, Michael and Obholzer, Anton. (1978) Cape Country Furniture, 2nd edition, Cape Town. A similar example is illustrated on page 98, number 318. 103 A Cape stinkwood rusbank, late 18th century with three-chair back, each centred with an oval panel carved with a flower-filled urn above a pierced splat, shaped arms, riempie seat, the shaped apron with dentil frieze, on tapering square-section fluted legs headed by foliate paterae and joined by stretchers, on square and block feet, two pairs of legs joined at the top, 196cm long R100 000 – 120 000 NOTES cf. Baraitser, Michael and Obholzer, Anton. (1978) Cape Country Furniture, 2nd edition, Cape Town. A comparable example is illustrated on page 126, numbers 423 and 424. 102 103 54