Strauss & co - 4 February 2013, Johannesburg

184 185 184 A Cape silver sugar basket, apparently unmarked, 18th century oval, urn-shaped with everted beaded and pierced rim, the sides applied with a pair of beaded handles, the shoulder engraved with a guilloche border, the beaded stem on a rectangular base, 205g, 18cmwide over handles R80 000 – 100 000 LITERATURE cf. Stephan Welz, Cape Silver and Silversmiths, Balkema, Cape Town, 1976, where a comparable example is illustrated on p 96 cf. Strauss & Co, Cape Town, 7 March 2011, lot 114, and 26 September 2011, lot 87, when similar examples of Cape silver sugar baskets were sold 185 A Cape silver beaker, Lodewyk Willem Christiaan Beck, mid 19th century the tapering cylindrical body engraved with initials PRJ, with reeded rim, the base inset with a coin dated 1844, gilt interior, 115g, 7cm high R20 000 – 25 000 77