Strauss & co - 18 March 2019, Cape Town

91 THE DR JOHAN BOLT COLLECTION OF CAPE FURNITURE LOTS 331–400 340 A Dutch Colonial teak gueridon, 18th century the moulded circular tray top above a twist-turned stem, on a diamond-shaped double lappet-carved support raised on three carved cabriole legs terminating in dragons’heads and foliage, raised on claw and ball feet, 112,5 cm high R  –   LITERATURE cf. G E Pearse (1960) Eighteenth Century Furniture in South Africa , Pretoria: Van Schaik. A similar example is illustrated on page 163, number 185. 339 A Cape Louis XV style stinkwood armchair, circa 1770 the curved caned back headed by a pair of stylised flowerheads, outcurved arm supports with scroll terminals, the serpentine-fronted seat-rail carved with a shell, on moulded leaf-headed cabriole legs with pointed feet R  –   PROVENANCE Important Cape Furniture from the collection of Mr Herbert Prins, Stephan Welz & Co. In Association with Sotheby’s, Cape Town, 21 & 22 October 1997, lot 71. LITERATURE cf. Matilda Burden (2013) Ou-Kaapse Meubels , Stellenbosch: SUN Media. A similar example is illustrated on page 162, number 401.