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.

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  • A Cape silver sugar caster, Gerhardus Lotter c.1800
  • A Cape silver sugar caster, Gerhardus Lotter c.1800
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ZAR 180 000 - 220 000
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Gerhardus Lotter
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A Cape silver sugar caster, Gerhardus Lotter c.1800
urn-shaped with beaded borders, the rim engraved with a lobed beaded border, the detachable pierced fluted cover surmounted by a bud finial, on a spreading circular foot and square base, 440g, 22cm high

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Purchased at A. Pilling antiques (PTY.) Ltd 17 March 1950.

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Gerhardus Lotter, baptized at the Cape on 18 November 1764, was the son of Johannes Casparus Lotter (born 1737) and Johanna Catharina van Kerken. He married Susanna Johanna Esterhuyzen on 24 August 1794. He began working as a silversmith around 1810 and continued his trade until 1824, the year of his death.

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