South African Design, Past & Present

Timed Online Auction, 7 - 26 June 2024

Furniture and Metalware

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  • Cape copper tart pan and cover, Josiah Duffett, Cape Town, 1850-1899
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Josiah Duffett
Cape Colony
Cape copper tart pan and cover, Josiah Duffett, Cape Town, 1850-1899
the circular pan applied with steel loop handles and raised on three tapering legs with pad feet, the cover stamped with the maker's sphinx and arrow symbol, and the base with DUFFET MANUFACTURERS
36cm wide over handles

Notes

Duffet was born in Cape Town in 1850. All the pieces which bear his name were exceptionally well made and exhibit none of the typical Cape characteristics of the period. The absence of the upturned edge or pronounced lip on the bottom edge of the lid on this tart pan is an example of this.

Tart pans are often missing their lids as glowing charcoal was piled on top and also under the pan which scorched and damaged the metal.

Provenance

Strauss & Co, Cape Town, 21 October 2013, lot 50.

Literature

cf. Viljoen, Deon and Rabe, Piér. (2001) Cape Furniture and Metalware, Cape Town: Struik. A similar example illustrated on pages 108 and 109.

cf. Le Roux, Marius. (1982) Cape Coppersmiths, Stellenbosch Museum. A similar example is illustrated on page 89.

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