Important Paintings, Furniture, Silver and Ceramics
Live Auction, 8 October 2009
Part I - Silver
Lot Estimate
ZAR 90 000 - 120 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 105 830
About this Item
Cape Colony
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
Other lots that might interest you
A Cape silver 'King's' pattern sauce ladle, Lawrence Twentyman, early 19th century
ZAR 3 000 - 4 000
A Cape silver covered sugar bowl, Willem Godfried Lotter, early 19th century
ZAR 40 000 - 60 000
A Cape silver Bible clasp, Johannes Combrink, mid 19th century
ZAR 12 000 - 15 000
A Cape silver presentation trowel, John Syms Willcox, circa 1880
ZAR 4 000 - 6 000
An assembled set of 'Fiddle' pattern Cape silver flatware, Lawrence Holme Twentyman, 19th century
ZAR 6 000 - 8 000
A miscellaneous collection of 'Fiddle' pattern Cape silver spoons, 19th century,
ZAR 6 000 - 8 000
