Strauss & co - 12 October 2015, Cape Town

355 A yellowwood and fruitwood work bench, 19th century rectangular, with vice clamp and later drawer, the top with tool apertures, on a double trestle base joined by stretchers with bracket supports on stile feet, 82,5cm high, 295cm long, 69cm deep R25 000–30 000 356 A Cape fruitwood and pine peg-top table, 19th century the rectangular top above a frieze with a later drawer, on turned legs, 72,5cm high, 101,5cm long, 58,5cm deep R4 000–6 000 357 A Cape yellowwood and pine Dekenah cupboard, late 19th century the later outset cornice above a pair of panelled doors enclosing two shelves, with a moulded long drawer below, on a plinth base, restorations and replacements, 172cm high, 121cmwide, 50,5cm R15 000–20 000 LITERATURE Michael Baraitser & Anton Oberholzer. (2004) Cape Antique Furniture , Cape Town: Struik. Illustrated on page 319, number 1338. 355 358 A north-western Transvaal African rosewood rusbank, second half 19th century the stepped top-rail above a row of turned spindles, the side supports with sable antelope-head terminals, each shepherd’s crook armrest carved with a stalking lion and terminating in a boot, riempie seat, on ring-turned tapering legs joined by three-quarter stretchers, 187cm long R60 000–80 000 cf. Deon Viljoen and Guus Roëll. (2003) Furniture from European trading posts at the Cape of Good Hope and in South- east Asia, 17th - 19th Centuries , Cape Town: Irma Stern Museum exhibition catalogue, number 20, where a similar example is illustrated and discussed. 357 144