A Cape silver caddy spoon, Marthinus Lourens Smith, late 18th/early 19th century
Furniture, Silver, Ceramics, Glass, Paintings, Prints and Sculpture
Lot Estimate Change Currency
ZAR 2 500 - 3 500
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 9 954
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About this Item
Cape Colony
A Cape silver caddy spoon, Marthinus Lourens Smith, late 18th/early 19th century
the terminals engraved with a flowerhead within a wrigglework border, 15g; and another, Godfried Fredrik Schmitzdorff, 19th century, with shell-shaped bowl, repairs, 10g
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Literature
cf Stephan Welz, Cape Silver and Silversmiths, Balkema, Cape Town, 1976, where an example by Marthinus Lourens Smith is illustrated on p104. There is a comparible example to the shell-shaped caddy spoon by Gerhardus Lotter which is illustrated on P40
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