Important South African Art, Furniture, Silver and Ceramics
Live Auction, 26 September 2011
Furniture, Silver, Ceramics and Paintings Day Sale
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About this Item
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