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.


Sold for

ZAR 5 628
Lot 44
  • A possibly Cape silver navette-shaped toothpick holder, maker unknown
  • A possibly Cape silver navette-shaped toothpick holder, maker unknown
  • A possibly Cape silver navette-shaped toothpick holder, maker unknown


Lot Estimate
ZAR 3 000 - 4 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 5 628

About this Item

A possibly Cape silver navette-shaped toothpick holder, maker unknown
the hinged cover with engraved border and centred by a cartouche, inscribed 'MC', 25g, 8cm


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Six Cape silver orange spoons, Johann Hasse, c.1751-1778
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A Cape silver sugar caster, Gerhardus Lotter c.1800
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Cape silver sugar bowl, Martinus Lourens Smith, 19th century
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A Cape silver covered sugar bowl, Gerhardus Lotter, c.1810-1824
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A Cape Silver snuff box, unmarked
A Cape Silver snuff box, unmarked
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