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.


Sold for

ZAR 44 555
Lot 12
  • A Cape silver covered jug, Willem Godfried Lotter, c.1770-1810
  • A Cape silver covered jug, Willem Godfried Lotter, c.1770-1810


Lot Estimate
ZAR 40 000 - 60 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 44 555
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About this Item

Cape Colony
A Cape silver covered jug, Willem Godfried Lotter, c.1770-1810
bulbous body, stippled rim, engraved with scrolling foliage, the hinged domed cover with a ball knop finial and engraved with wrigglework, the side applied with harp-shaped handle, 470g, 15cm high

Provenance

The Mary Eleanor Hibbert Collection

Notes

Willem Godfried Lotter, baptised at the Cape on 29 September 1748, was the son of Matthias Lotter and Anna Dorothea van den Berg. He married Helena Wilhelmina Cornelisse on 7 April 1776, and later Wilhelmina Margaretha Wentzel on 15 August 1779. He began working as a silversmith around 1770 and continued until 1809. He died in 1810. It appears that Willem Godfried and his son shared the same silversmith marks, as these marks have been found on items dated both earlier than the son's working period and later than the father's.

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

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