South African Design: Past & Present
Timed Online Auction, 13 June - 9 July 2025
Cape Interiors: Furniture, Metalware, Silver & Glass
About the SessionThis sale traces the heritage of South African design across centuries of creative expression highlighting diverse design objects through two sessions. Uniting the sessions is a celebration of the versatility of materials - metal, wood, glass, clay, fibre - and how artists and artisans have transformed them over time into works of wonder, rich in both tradition and innovation.
Found 55 lots in session 1
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A Cape silver-mounted cowrie shell snuff box, Jacobus Johannes Vos, c.1841-1882
ZAR 5 000 - 7 000
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ZAR 7 035
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Four Cape fiddle pattern silver tablespoons, in sizes, Lawrence Holme Twentyman, c.1818-1837
ZAR 5 000 - 7 000
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ZAR 5 863
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A Cape silver fiddle pattern spoon, Lawrence Holme Twentyman, c.1818-1837
ZAR 2 000 - 3 000
A Cape silver basting spoon, Lawrence Holme Twentyman, c.1818-1837
ZAR 2 000 - 3 000
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ZAR 5 628
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Cape silver sugar bowl, Martinus Lourens Smith, 19th century
ZAR 60 000 - 80 000
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ZAR 164 150
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Two Cape Silver forks, Johannes Combrink and Martinus Lourens Smith, early 19th century
ZAR 1 000 - 2 000
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ZAR 7 035
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A Cape silver covered sugar bowl, Gerhardus Lotter, c.1810-1824
ZAR 80 000 - 100 000
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ZAR 117 250
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A possibly Cape silver navette-shaped toothpick holder, maker unknown
ZAR 3 000 - 4 000
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ZAR 5 628
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A Cape Silver snuff box, unmarked
ZAR 3 000 - 4 000
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ZAR 7 035
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A set of six Voortrekker commemorative monument teaspoons, Zilverfabriek Voorschooten, The Netherlands, c.1938
ZAR 2 000 - 3 000
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ZAR 2 345
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George VI silver Voortrekker Monument jam spoon, Thomas Gilpin Ltd, Sheffield,1949
A set of four silver Voortrekker Monument Commemorative spoons, Thomas Gilpin Ltd, Sheffield, 1949