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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  • Four Cape fiddle pattern silver tablespoons, in sizes, Lawrence Holme Twentyman, c.1818-1837
  • Four Cape fiddle pattern silver tablespoons, in sizes, Lawrence Holme Twentyman, c.1818-1837
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ZAR 5 000 - 7 000
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ZAR 5 863

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Lawrence Holme Twentyman
Cape Colony
Four Cape fiddle pattern silver tablespoons, in sizes, Lawrence Holme Twentyman, c.1818-1837
with engraved terminals, 120g
(4)

Notes

Lawrence Holme Twentyman, the son of John Middleton Twentyman and Phoebe Holme was born in 1793 in Liverpool. After qualifying as a clock and watchmaker he left for the Cape in 1818, where he became the most prolific and the most well-known 19th century silversmith.

Stephan Welz (1976) Cape Silver and Silversmiths, Cape Town: AA Balkema.

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