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 56 280
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  • A Cape silver covered jug, Gerhardus Lotter, c.1810-1824
  • A Cape silver covered jug, Gerhardus Lotter, c.1810-1824
  • A Cape silver covered jug, Gerhardus Lotter, c.1810-1824
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ZAR 50 000 - 70 000
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ZAR 56 280
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Gerhardus Lotter
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A Cape silver covered jug, Gerhardus Lotter, c.1810-1824
ovoid body, the borders engraved with wrigglework band, the domed hinged cover with ball knop finial and beak-shaped spout, the side applied with an ebonised scroll handle, raised on a square base pedestal footrim, 570g,18cm high

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Gerhardus Lotter, baptised at the Cape on 18 November 1764, was the son of Johannes Casparus Lotter (born 1737) and Johanna Catharina van Kerken. He married Susanna Johanna Esterhuyzen on 24 August 1794. He began working as a silversmith around 1810 and continued his trade until 1824, the year of his death.

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

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The Mary Eleanor Hibbert Collection

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