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Cape Silver Wine Barrel Beaker - Dutch Silver Rider Ducaton
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Reference: S11379
Period: George IV
Year: Circa 1825
Silversmith: Lawrence Twentyman
Place: Cape
Price: $ 1 050.00
Weight: 124 grams
Dimensions: 6.8 cm height, 5.9 cm diameter top
Condition: Fair, a few small dents to body, and small dent to base, this beaker has been well used. 4 cm solder patch to interior indicates old repair, not visible on outside. Coin well preserved.
Description: A Cape silver beaker, in the shape of half a wine barrel, with a Dutch silver Ducaton Silver Rider dated 1769 set in the base. The beaker has realistically modelled barrel staves, complete with arrow shaped ends with nail heads, and is later engraved with owners initials "JvR" on one side and the date "5th March 1865" on the other side. The barrel also has engraved half circle on rim, to show where 2 halves should be joined. No hallmarks are present. The Dutch silver rider Ducaton coin is a crown sized coin (32.8 grammes of .94 silver), the obverse features a mounted knight on horseback, above a crowned shield, (City of Utrecht) with the motto "MO: NO: ARG: CON: POE: BELG: PRO: TRAI:", translated "Coin of government of the federation of Belgium, Utrecht". The reverse has the crowned arms of Zeeland with supporters, with date 1769 in cartouche below, with motto "CONCORDIA RES PARVAE CRESCUNT", translated "Concordance makes small things grow". The coin itself is in good condition, the base is protected by a rim so the coin does not touch the surface where it is standing. This beaker would have originally had a matching double beaker top, now missing, perhaps split during inheritance. An almost identical completed double beaker can be seen on the Old Corkscrew website (www.oldcorkscrew.co.za), also with Dutch silver riders but dated later (1780 and 1790), note the identical decoration of the barrel staves, the Old Corkscrew beaker has Cape silver hallmarks for Lawrence Twentyman, given the similarities we can be confident this beaker is by the same maker, hence our attribution as Cape Silver. The only noticeable difference is that the Old Corkscrew beaker has a gilded interior. A similar Cape silver banded barrel double beaker can be seen in the book Cape Silver by Welz, page 49, this example by Oltman Ahlers from the Africana museum. Other similar examples have appeared on auction, see Strauss Feb 2013 lot 186 (Peter Clarke Daniel, sold for R 133k), Strauss October 2015, lot 294, unmarked but with same Dutch silver rider ducatons.
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Cape Silver Wine Barrel Beaker -Dutch Silver Rider Ducaton
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Dutch Silver Rider Ducaton
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Cape Silver Wine Barrel Beaker
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Dutch Silver Rider Ducaton 1769 beaker
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Silver Wine Barrel Beaker with coin, scale
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