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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ZAR 5 863
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  • A Cape silver fiddle pattern soup ladle, Johan Hendrik Vos, c.1806-1849
  • A Cape silver fiddle pattern soup ladle, Johan Hendrik Vos, c.1806-1849
  • A Cape silver fiddle pattern soup ladle, Johan Hendrik Vos, c.1806-1849
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ZAR 5 000 - 7 000
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ZAR 5 863

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Johan Hendrik Vos
Cape Colony
A Cape silver fiddle pattern soup ladle, Johan Hendrik Vos, c.1806-1849
the terminal engraved 'JPH', 260g

Notes

Johan Hendrik Vos, baptized in the Cape on 19 January 1806, was the son of Jacobus Johannes Vos (born 1785) and Susanna Sophia Lotter. He married Hillegonda Hendrika Aspeling and died on 9 February 1849. Vos worked as a silversmith from 1834 to 1849 operating at several addresses in Buitengracht Street: 11 Buitengracht (1834–41), 73 Buitengracht (1842–48), and 78 Buitengracht (1849–50). In various directories, he is listed as Jan Hendrik. His known maker’s marks include 155, 156, 157, and 158.

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