South African Design: Past & Present

Timed Online Auction, 13 June - 9 July 2025

Cape Interiors: Furniture, Metalware, Silver & Glass
About the Session

This 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.


Sold for

ZAR 76 213
Lot 24
  • A Transvaal brass Imperial peck measure, 1896
  • A Transvaal brass Imperial peck measure, 1896
  • A Transvaal brass Imperial peck measure, 1896


Lot Estimate
ZAR 20 000 - 25 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 76 213

About this Item

A Transvaal brass Imperial peck measure, 1896
of banded circular form, engraved 'ZUID AFRIKAANSCHE REPUBLIEK 1896', with turned ebonized handles, 18cm high, 38cm over handles

Notes

The Imperial system of units beginning in 1824 was developed and used in the United Kingdom and its empire to standardize weights and measures. It has been replaced by the metric system that we use today.

Brass measures such as this one were used to measure dry substances such as grain.



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