Strauss & co - 14 March 2016, Cape Town

241 A pair of Cape silver escutcheon plates, Johan Anton Bünning, second half 18th century each moulded with c-scrolls, flowerheads and shells, 42g, 10,1cm long (2) R10 000–15 000 PROVENANCE Sold: Strauss & Co, March 2011, Lot 136 242 A rare pair of Cape silver spectacle frames, Marthinus Lourens Smith, second half 18th/ early 19th century the retractable arms with oval loop terminals, 20g R8 000–12 000 cf. Stephan Welz. (1976) Cape Silver and Silversmiths , Cape Town: AA Balkema. Pages 90-91, where a similar example by Smith, now in the Africana Museum, is discussed and illustrated. 243 A Cape silver Bible clasp, Johannes Combrink, first half 19th century engraved with a flowerhead within swag and stipple borders, mounted on a Dutch ‘Het Nieuwe Testament’, the frontpaper with inscription by ‘J C Hofmeyr, 8 Meij 1844’ R6 000–8 000 244 A Cape silver christening mug, John Townsend, second quarter 19th century the lobed body engraved ‘H.M’and raised on a spreading circular conforming foot, applied with a leaf-capped scroll handle, with moulded rims and gilt interior, the base inscribed ‘From S.S.B.’, 175g, 8,8cm high R15 000–20 000 241 242 243 244 detail 94