The Mary Eleanor Hibbert Cape Silver Collection

Live Virtual Auction, 9 July 2025

The Mary Eleanor Hibbert Collection
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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 175 875
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  • A Cape silver coffee pot, Johannes Casparus Lotter, c.1760
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Johannes Casparus Lotter
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A Cape silver coffee pot, Johannes Casparus Lotter, c.1760
urn-shaped with beaded and engraved borders, the hinged cover with an ovoid finial, the side applied with a wooden scroll handle, raised on an oval footrim, gilt interior, 530g,22cm high

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The Mary Eleanor Hibbert Collection

Strauss & Co, 16 March 2015 lot 348

Notes

Johannes Casparus Lotter, baptised 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, through 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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