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.


  • A set of four silver Voortrekker Monument Commemorative spoons, Thomas Gilpin Ltd, Sheffield, 1949
  • A set of four silver Voortrekker Monument Commemorative spoons, Thomas Gilpin Ltd, Sheffield, 1949


Lot Estimate
ZAR 1 000 - 2 000
Location
Cape Town
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A set of four silver Voortrekker Monument Commemorative spoons, Thomas Gilpin Ltd, Sheffield, 1949
handle and terminal with ox-wagon wheel, Zulu shield and gunpowder horns, stem with spear, back of terminal and handle with Voortrekker Monument, raised '1949', 'S.V.K', 'U.W.B' 65g, 11.7cm
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Notes

These spoons were sold to fund the monument's construction, which cost £350,000. Designed by renowned South African artist WH. Coetzer, the original design is housed at MuseumAfrica in Johannesburg. Coetzer also designed the 1938 Great Trek commemorative postage stamps, as well as the Voortrekker Monument's marble friezes and tapestries, completed in 1948.

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