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 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, 7,5cm wide
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.