Willem Godfried Lotter
Session 1
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LOT 2
Willem Godfried Lotter
Lot Estimate Change Currency
ZAR 7 000 - 9 000
Current Bid
Starting at ZAR 7 000
Location
Johannesburg
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About this Item
Cape Colony
Four Cape silver fiddle pattern spoons, William Godfried Lotter, c.1810-1835
each terminal engraved with initials, 280g all in
(4)
length: 22,5cm
Provenance
The Mary Eleanor Hibbert collection.
Notes
In the 17th and 18th centuries it was customary among the Dutch at the Cape to give memorials to mourners at a funeral. This was often in the form of a spoon and fork, and it is possibly through this circumstance that these came to be made at the Cape in the 17th century.
Literature
Stephen Welz (1976) Cape silver and silversmiths, Cape Town: A.A Balkema, pages 90-95
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