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 117 250
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  • A Cape silver covered sugar bowl, Gerhardus Lotter, c.1810-1824
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ZAR 80 000 - 100 000
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ZAR 117 250

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Gerhardus Lotter
Cape Colony
A Cape silver covered sugar bowl, Gerhardus Lotter, c.1810-1824
vase-shaped with a band of beading, the sides applied with a pair of corded handles, the pierced base with beaded rim, detachable conforming cover, 340g,13cm high

Notes

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. His maker’s marks were 68, 69 and 70.

cf. Stephan Welz (1976) Cape Silver and Silversmiths, Cape Town, AA Balkema, Pages 98 - 101 where comparative examples are discussed and illustrated.

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