Strauss & co - 14 March 2016, Cape Town

275 A Cape Neo-Classical stinkwood gateleg table, 18th century the moulded rectangular peg-top with moulded wavy corners above a wavy frieze, on square-section stop-fluted tapering legs carved with flowerheads, 72,5cm high, 200cm long wide open, 155cm deep R 80 000–100 000 PROPERTY OF A COLLECTOR | LOTS 270 - 278 PROVENANCE Formerly the property of Punch and Cynthia Barlow, Vergelegen, Somerset West. LITERATURE Michael Baraitser and Anton Obholzer. (1987) Town Furniture of the Cape , Cape Town: Struik. Illustrated on page 150, number 610. ‘The finest example of this type we have seen’. Graham Viney. (1989) Colonial Houses of South Africa , Cape Town: Struik. Illustrated in colour on pages 28 and 29, positioned in the library at Vergelegen. Michael Baraitser and Anton Obholzer. (2004) Cape Antique Furniture , Cape Town: Struik. Illustrated on page 180, number 840. 110