Dutch silver pattipan

Dutch silver pattipan

Johannes Hortsman

Amsterdam, 1767

60 grams; 9.8 x 9 cm wide

The pattipan is raised on four claw supports and has a shaped border with scrolls. Fully marked at the reverse.

Initially Johannes Horstman was recorded in literature as Johannes Hartsman. However it turns out that the correct name of the master-silversmith with maker’s mark IH of either side of a tree in a rectangle must be Johannes Horstman. Johannes Horstman (1721-1804) was the son of Jan Horstman and Alida Bruyn, who were married in 1717. In 1758 Johannes Horstman became a burgher of the city of Amsterdam and probably shortly afterwards he enrolled in the Amsterdam silversmiths’ guild. He was a prolific service worker of salvers, bread baskets, sweetmeat baskets and tea services. Somewhere between 1790 and 1795 he stopped working.

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