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.
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Born in Brunswick, Hasse arrived in the Cape as a soldier in 1751. In August 1752 he was loaned as a silversmith to Matthias Lotter's widow whom he married three months later. Johan Hendrik was the first silversmithing member of the Vos family. He served his indentures with Johann Hasse for a period of five years from 1761. Hasse died in 1779.
The orange spoon is probably one of the most attractive spoons made in the Cape. The size of a teaspoon, it has a narrow, pointed, boat-shaped bowl and triangular terminal and is generally engraved with floral decoration.
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