South African Design: Past & Present

Timed Online Auction, 13 June - 9 July 2025

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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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Lot 37
  • A Cape silver-mounted cowrie shell snuff box, Jacobus Johannes Vos, c.1841-1882
  • A Cape silver-mounted cowrie shell snuff box, Jacobus Johannes Vos, c.1841-1882
  • A Cape silver-mounted cowrie shell snuff box, Jacobus Johannes Vos, c.1841-1882


Lot Estimate
ZAR 5 000 - 7 000
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Starting at ZAR 5 000
Location
Cape Town
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A Cape silver-mounted cowrie shell snuff box, Jacobus Johannes Vos, c.1841-1882 the shell set in in a scalloped border, the base engraved with wrigglework, 9cm wide

Notes

Jacobus Johannes Vos, baptized at the Cape on 28 August 1785, was the son of silversmith Johan Hendrik Vos and Elisabeth Rossouw. He married Susanna Sophia Lotter, linking him to the prominent Lotter silversmithing family. Although there is no direct documentary evidence confirming that Jacobus himself practiced as a silversmith, the likelihood is strong given his family ties-both his father and two of his sons were silversmiths. This intergenerational association with the trade, along with his marriage into the Lotter family, supports the assumption that he may have been involved in the craft. He died o an unknown date before 1820, as records from that year list his wife as a widow.

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