Johan Anton Bünning
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ZAR 5 000 - 7 000
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Starting at ZAR 4 500
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Cape Town
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About this Item
Cape Colony
A pair of Cape silver sugar nips, Johan Anton Bünning, c.1758-1793
of scissor form with scrollwork terminal grips and scallop-shell bowls, the central pivot engraved with initials 'ML', 30g
length: 10,6cm
Literature
Johan Anton Bünning from Bremen, arrived at the Cape in 1758 as a soldier in the Dutch East India Company. As a member of the Lutheran Church he took an active role in having the Lutherans allowed freedom to worship at the Cape. It is surprising, therefore, that he was commissioned by the Dutch Reformed Church of Stellenbosch to make an inkstand, the mounts and bells for two alms-bags, and a table bell in 1773.
Stephan Welz (1976) Cape Silver and Silversmiths, Cape Town: AA Balkema, page 129.
Provenance
Private Collection.
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