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.
Lot Estimate
ZAR 3 000 - 4 000
Current Bid
Starting at ZAR 3 000
Location
Cape Town
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A brass and copper fireside set, Pieter Van Dijk, 20th century comprising two shovels, two pokers, three pairs of tongs, a brush and a coal bucket, the tongs 71cm high (9)
Notes
Pieter Van Dijk, a Master copper-smith established his business in Cape Town in the 1950s. He went on to become a household name in the 1970s after being commissioned by the late Anton Rupert to provide traditional brass beds and traditional Cape Dutch styled light fittings for the Lanzerac Hotel in Stellenbosch.
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