The Mary Eleanor Hibbert Cape Silver Collection
Live Virtual Auction, 9 July 2025
The Mary Eleanor Hibbert Collection
About the SessionThis 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.
Lot Estimate
ZAR 50 000 - 70 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 175 875
About this Item
Cape Colony
A Cape silver beaker, John Townsend, c.1824-1841
tapering cylindrical, the body engraved with initials and inscriptions, the borders engraved with oak leaves, stippled and wrigglework and a reeded rim, gilt interior, 305g,12,5cm high
Notes
Inscription reads: Presented by Mrs Keiser to Capt. Brooks of Lavinia, as a token of respect, for attention shown to her Sister, and Brother, Lisette, and Theodore Keiser, during a Passage in his ship, from London to Cape of Good Hope.
Provenance
The Mary Eleanor Hibbert Collection
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