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ZAR 267 360
Lot 87
  • A Cape silver two-handled sugar bowl, Johan Hendrik Vos, circa 1780
  • A Cape silver two-handled sugar bowl, Johan Hendrik Vos, circa 1780


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ZAR 60 000 - 80 000
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ZAR 267 360
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About this Item

Cape Colony
A Cape silver two-handled sugar bowl, Johan Hendrik Vos, circa 1780
the pierced rim moulded with flowerheads and scrolls, on four outswept flower-headed legs teminating in pad feet, 165g, 17,5cm wide over handles

Literature

cf. Stephan Welz, Cape Silver and Silversmiths, Balkema, Cape Town, 1976, p97 where a similar example by Daniel Heinrich Schmidt is illustrated

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