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A comparable chair with similar carved seat rail and cabriole legs is in the collection of the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag (cat. no. OHO-1936-0005) and illustrated in Titus Eliëns (ed.), Domestic Interiors at the Cape and in Batavia 1602-1795, Zwolle, 2002, p. 58-59, cat nr. 7.