Strauss & co - 13 October 2014, Cape Town

132 440 A Cape stinkwood and beefwood silver-mounted cabinet-on-stand, late 18th/early 19th century the moulded arched cornice above a pair of panelled doors enclosing two shelves and three drawers, the lower half with a long drawer, on ring-turned tapering octagonal legs joined by an X-shaped stretcher centred by an oval ebonised boss inlaid with an ebony and bone compass, applied with Cape silver handles and escutcheon plates by Samuel Freemantle, restorations , the handles marked ‘FS 150/200’, 241cm high, 167cmwide, 64cm deep R150 000–200 000 PROVENANCE Vesperdene, Green Point. LITERATURE Stephan Welz. (1976) Cape Silver and Silversmiths , Cape Town: Balkema. Page 132, illustrated on page 153, number 115. PROPERTY OF A COLLECTOR | LOTS 440-458