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 30 000 - 40 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 76 213
About this Item
Cape Colony
Pair of 18ct gold belt clasps, Johannes Marthinus Lotter, c.1844-1879
each pierced frame moulded with rocaille and foliate decoration, the reverse with studs, 5cm long
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Provenance
The Mary Eleanor Hibbert Collection
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