Strauss & co - 10 - 11 May 2020, Cape Town

89 PROPERTY OF A COLLECTOR LOTS 338–363 359 A Cape Queen Anne teak and yellowwood corner armchair, circa 1760 the bowed crested rail with outscrolled terminals above two vase-form splats, the caned seat with a moulded leaf-and-pendant shell-headed cabriole leg with ball-and-claw foot joined by a turned cross-stretcher R70 000 - 80 000 PROVENANCE Stephan Welz & Co in association with Sotheby’s, Cape Town, Important Cape Furniture from the Collection of Mr Herbert Prins , 21 & 22 October 1997, lot 60. Deon Viljoen & Guus Röell, Cape Town, 2003. A similar chair was sold by Sotheby’s Property from the Estate Late Jocelyn Purcell, Groot Constantia , Cape Town, 11 December, 1985, lot 14. LITERATURE Deon Viljoen & Guus Röell (2003) Uit Verre Streken , Cape Town & Maastricht exhibition catalogue, Ince Cape (Pty) Ltd, illustration No 6. Mathilda Burden (2015) Old Cape Furniture Studies in styles , SUN MeDIA, Stellenbosch, illustrated on page 98, fig. 224. cf. Mathilda Burden (2015) Old Cape Furniture Studies in styles , SUN MeDIA, Stellenbosch, illustrated on page 98, fig. 223, where a near example is illustrated from the Oude Kerk Volksmuseum in Tulbagh. cf. G. E. Pearse (1960) Eighteenth Century Furniture in South Africa , Pretoria, illustrated on page 55, pl. 63, where a near example is illustrated from Groote Schuur.