South African Design, Past & Present
Timed Online Auction, 7 - 26 June 2024
Furniture and Metalware
Lot Estimate
ZAR 15 000 - 20 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 14 070
About this Item
Johannesburg, South Africa
Kurt Jobst forged iron fire grate
in two parts, the rectangular openwork fire basket with scroll side handles, raised on a pair of cobra andirons, and an associated poker
(2)
58cm high, 104cm wide, 63cm deep
Notes
Kurt Jobst was born in 1905 and emigrated to South Africa in 1935, setting up his workshop in Johannesburg.
Although he is best known as a goldsmith and silversmith, he was proficient in a number of skills including blacksmithing, enamel work, metal engraving and wood carving.
Provenance
From the Late Lady Ina Oppenheimer Blue Bird Farm Collection.
This piece was commissioned for the Blue Bird farm.
Strauss & Co. Cape Town, 10 May 2020, Lot 398.
Literature
Gerrit Bakker (1979) Kurt Jobst, Goldsmith and Silversmith, Art Metal Worker, Gerrit Bakker, Johannesburg, illustrated on page 36.
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