This pair of chairs belongs to the rococo revival seen at the Cape towards the end of the nineteenth century. Low cabinets, chests of drawers and small tables, generally with cabriole legs and ball-and-claw feet, were popular items. These pieces are often somewhat coarse and un-elegant. This pair of chairs, however, has retained much of the elegance of the eighteenth-century rococo furniture made at the Cape of Good Hope. Rococo designs for large cabinets, chairs, tables and silver represented an important stylistic innovation from the 1760s on in the generally old-fashioned world at the Cape of Good Hope.