Important Paintings, Furniture, Silver and Ceramics

Live Auction, 8 October 2009

Part I - Silver

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ZAR 105 830
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  • A Cape silver teapot, Daniel Beets, late 18th/early 19th century
  • A Cape silver teapot, Daniel Beets, late 18th/early 19th century
  • A Cape silver teapot, Daniel Beets, late 18th/early 19th century
  • A Cape silver teapot, Daniel Beets, late 18th/early 19th century
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ZAR 90 000 - 120 000
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ZAR 105 830

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A Cape silver teapot, Daniel Beets, late 18th/early 19th century

oval with canted corners, the shoulders engraved with bright-cut foliate decoration and wrigglework, the hinged cover similarly engraved above a band of reeding, with a wooden finial, applied with a leaf-capped wooden handle, the body engraved with the initials 'NL', 1120g all in, 19,3cm high

Notes

This teapot was used for the design of a 25 cent postage stamp, 5 November 1985.  A First Day Cover accompanies this lot.

Literature

Stephan Welz, Cape Silver, Cape Town 1976, p 106, illustrated.

'One of the finest Cape silver teapots is by Daniel Beets   Not only is this teapot exceptional because of its size - it is 19,3cm high - but it is also the only shaped oval Cape teapot I know of.' p 107

Stephan Welz, Art at Auction in South Africa, 1969-1989, Johannesburg 1989, p 233, illustrated

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