Strauss & co - 12 October 2015, Cape Town

295 A Cape silver two-handled sugar bowl and cover, Lawrence Holme Twentyman, first half 19th century urn-shaped, to a spreading domed circular foot, the sides applied with ribbed flowerhead and leaf handles, the part-gadrooned rim divided by four flowerhead and foliate motifs, the domed cover with flowerhead finial, dents, 630g, 15cm high R30 000–40 000 296 A Cape silver snuff box, Johannes Combrink, first half 19th century with two hinged compartments, the smaller set into the cover, curved rectangular, the front and reverse engraved with a floral motif within wrigglework borders, the side engraved with the initials ‘JMN’, gilt interior, 140g, 7,5cmwide R10 000–12 000 LITERATURE cf. Stephan Welz. Cape Silver and Silversmiths , Balkema, Cape Town, 1976. Page 86, where a similar example by Willem Godfried Lotter is illustrated and discussed. 297 A Colonial silver-mounted cowrie shell snuff box, 19th century the side of the mount engraved ‘PMB’, with hinged, shell-set cover, the shell with some distress, 9,5cm long R4 000–6 000 295 296 297 296 detail 120