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 222 775
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  • A Cape silver teapot, Johan Hendrik Vos, c.1760-1810
  • A Cape silver teapot, Johan Hendrik Vos, c.1760-1810
  • A Cape silver teapot, Johan Hendrik Vos, c.1760-1810
  • A Cape silver teapot, Johan Hendrik Vos, c.1760-1810
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ZAR 200 000 - 250 000
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Johan Hendrik Vos
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A Cape silver teapot, Johan Hendrik Vos, c.1760-1810
oval, engraved with a vacant wreath cartouche on both sides, the shoulder engraved with foliate band and wrigglework, the hinged cover surmounted by a wooden finial, the side applied with a wooden c-scroll handle, 670g,15cm high

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The Mary Eleanor Hibbert Collection

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Johan Hendrik Vos was the son of Jan Hendrik Vos (1715) and Johanna Bok. Baptized at the Cape on 23 March 1749. On 13 December 1767 Vos married Judith Elisabeth Mulder who died without issue. On 29 July 1770 he married Elisabeth Rossouw by whom he had twelve children. He was apprenticed to Johann Hasse for a period of five years from 7 October 1761. His youngest brother Michiel Christiaan Vos served his apprenticeship with him from 1774 to 1779.

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

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