Gerhardus Lotter
Evening Sale
Lot Estimate Change Currency
ZAR 120 000 - 150 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 140 700
Auction Catalogue
About this Item
Cape Colony
A Cape silver teapot, Gerhardus Lotter, 1810-1824
ovoid, the body engraved with bands of stipple and wrigglework, each side centred by a vacant cartouche, the hinged cover with a wooden finial, the side applied with a leaf-capped wooden handle, the base engraved with initials 'HVR', 675g
height: 14cm
Provenance
Private Collection.
Notes
The son of Johannes Casparus Lotter (1737) and Johanna Catharina van Kerken, baptised at the Cape on 18 November 1764. Married Susanna Johanna Esterhuyzen on 24 August 1794. His widow is listed in the directory for 1825.
Stephan Welz (1976), Cape Silver and Silversmiths, Cape Town: AA Balkema, pages 135.
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