The Mary Eleanor Hibbert Cape Silver Collection

Live Virtual Auction, 9 July 2025

The Mary Eleanor Hibbert Collection
About the Session

This auction features the notable private Cape silver collection of Mary Eleanor Hibbert assembled over many decades and featuring rare pieces, including a double beaker, alms dish, sugar bowls, snuff boxes and 18ct gold clasps from the golden age of Cape silversmithing. Master silversmiths included in this collection are Willem Godfried Lotter, Lawrence Holme Twentyman, Johannes Casparus Lotter, Johan Hendrik Vos and Jan Lotter.

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ZAR 9 967
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  • A Cape silver teapot stand, Johannes Casparus Lotter, c.1760
  • A Cape silver teapot stand, Johannes Casparus Lotter, c.1760
  • A Cape silver teapot stand, Johannes Casparus Lotter, c.1760
  • A Cape silver teapot stand, Johannes Casparus Lotter, c.1760
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ZAR 8 000 - 10 000
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ZAR 9 967
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Johannes Casparus Lotter
Cape Colony
A Cape silver teapot stand, Johannes Casparus Lotter, c.1760
oval, the stepped rim engraved with leaves and ribbon, raised on four feet, 235g,17,5cm wide

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The Mary Eleanor Hibbert Collection

Notes

Johannes Casparus Lotter, baptized at the Cape on 25 August 1737, was the son of Matthias Lotter and Anna Dorothea van den Berg. He married Johanna Catharina van Kerken on 7 May 1758 and likely completed his apprenticeship under his stepfather, Johann Hasse. He began working as a silversmith from around 1766, though to the end of his career, his date of death remains uncertain.

Stephan Welz (1976) Cape Silver and Silversmiths, Cape Town: AA Balkema.

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