Strauss & co - 12 October 2015, Cape Town

292 A Cape silver two-handled sugar bowl and cover, unknown maker HNS, late 18th century urn-shaped with beaded borders, the sides applied with a pair of rope-twist handles, on a spreading circular foot and square pierced base, the corners engraved with the initials ‘SFVA’, the semi-domed cover with bud and leaf finial, one leaf lacking, 370g, 16,5cm high R80 000–100 000 LITERATURE cf. Stephan Welz. (1996) Art at Auction in South Africa , Cape Town: Art Link. Page 230 cf. Stephan Welz. (1976) Cape Silver and Silversmiths , Cape Town: AA Balkema. Pages 98-101, where comparative examples are discussed and illustrated. 293 A Cape silver teapot, Willem Godfried Lotter, late 18th/ early 19th century ovoid, the waisted body engraved with a foliate border below a reeded rim, with later leaf-capped wooden handle and swan-neck spout, the hinged semi- domed cover with later wooden finial, 670g all in, 16,9cm high R40 000–60 000 LITERATURE cf. Stephan Welz. (1989) Art at Auction in South Africa: Twenty Years of Sotheby’s/Stephan Welz & Co, 1969-1989 , Johannesburg: A D Donker. Page 232 cf. Stephan Welz. (1976) Cape Silver and Silversmiths , Cape Town: Balkema, Cape Town. Page 105, where a similar example is illustrated 292 118

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