Lot Essay
For a comparable bench, see Monique van de Geijn-Verhoeven, '40 top pieces of Batavian furniture' in Domestic Interiors at the Cape and in Batavia, 1602-1795, page 74.
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19TH CENTURY
Details
A Dutch colonial rosewood bench
19th Century
Overall carved with flowers and foliage, the shaped back with spirally turned splats, above a caned seat on conformingly turned legs and stretchers
120 cm. wide
19th Century
Overall carved with flowers and foliage, the shaped back with spirally turned splats, above a caned seat on conformingly turned legs and stretchers
120 cm. wide
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