Important South African & International Art, Jewellery and Decorative Arts
Live Auction, 12 October 2015
English, Cape and Colonial Silver, Decorative Arts and Furniture
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About this Item
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
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
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