Description 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
Condition Report There is a repair to the back top rail in an area measuring 11 by 3cm, this is visible from the reverse There is a diamond-shaped repair to the left arm measuring 4 by 3,5cm The corner of the front seat rail above the front cabriole leg with dowels Scuffing to the legs and the feet The front right pad with loss in an area measuring 3 by 1,5cm The back pad with further loss in an area measuring 3 by 0,5cm and 2 by 0,5cm The back seat rail with a repair in an area measuring 4 by 2cm The pad feet with additional height blocking
Literature Deon Viljoen&Guus R?ell (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.
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 R?ell, 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. Property of a Collector.