Servaas van der Graaf, Leendert Brower, Pieter Jacobus Staats Five Dutch silver tea spoons, five coffee spoons and four forks

Exh. Cat. Couven-Museum Aachen, 2003, no 140 & no. 181
Exh. Cat. Museum für Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt, 2004, no. 121A

Servaas van der Gaaf, the son of Willem van der Gaaf and his wife, Catharina Hannot, was born in The Hague on 5 August 1691.  After his apprenticeship, he married Jannetje van Osche, and became a master goldsmith on 5 May 1715.  He died on 30 November 1757. His son, Lambert, who was born 24 August 1728, followed his father's profession and became a master goldsmith in November 1751.
Pieter Jacobus Staats was born in Deventer in 1715. He became a master goldsmith in Amsterdam in 1751 and married four times. He died after 1810.