A Cape silver soup ladle, unknown maker HNS, 18th century
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ZAR 9 000 - 12 000
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A Cape silver soup ladle, unknown maker HNS, 18th century
255g
length: 37cm
Notes
Stamped HNS, this maker’s mark remains unattributed to a definitively identified Cape silversmith. Although the initials appear on a small group of late 18th-century Cape silver pieces, no archival record has conclusively linked them to a named silversmith. Some scholars have suggested a possible association with Daniel Heinrich Schmidt based on stylistic similarities and comparable secondary punches, but this remains unproven. The mark therefore continues to be catalogued as an “unknown maker”, a small but intriguing mystery within the study of Cape silver.
Similar marks can be seen illustrated here.
Provenance
Private Collection.
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