John Townsend
Furniture, Silver, Ceramics, Glass, Paintings, Prints and Sculpture
Lot Estimate Change Currency
ZAR 6 000 - 8 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 12 254
Auction Catalogue
About this Item
Cape Colony
A Cape silver cruet frame, John Townsend, 19th century
square, with gadrooned rim, on leaf-scroll feet, the four ring holders connected by shell motifs with reeded central handle, 270g,17cm wide; two later sauce bottles, a silver-mounted and glass pepper pot and a mustard pot, Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co, London, 1909; and a Cape silver Fiddle pattern mustard spoon, John Townsend, 15g
(6)
Provenance
Sold: Sotheby Parke Bernet South Africa, Cape Town, 9th March 1982, lot 55
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