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Spoon

ca. 1600 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Leicester (made)

Spoon, silver, parcel-gilt, hexagonal stem and fig shaped bowl. The finial is the normal type of lion sejant affronté. its front legs replaced by a plain shield. The bowl is pricked IT on the back.


Object details

Categories
Eating
Metalwork
Silver
Tableware & Cutlery
Object type
Spoon
Materials and techniques
Silver, parcel-gilt
Silver
Gold
Forging
Amalgam Gilding
Pouncing
Brief description
Spoon, silver parcel-gilt, Leicester, ca.1600
Physical description
Spoon, silver, parcel-gilt, hexagonal stem and fig shaped bowl. The finial is the normal type of lion sejant affronté. its front legs replaced by a plain shield. The bowl is pricked IT on the back.
Dimensions
  • Length: 17.2cm
Marks and inscriptions
Marked once in the bowl anf three times on the back of the stem with the mark of a wyvern in a shaped shield. (The same mark is shown in GEP How, Catalogue of the Ellis Sale, 13-14th November, 1935, Lot 142. How following CJ Jackson ascribes the mark to Leicester the crest of wich is a wyvern, sans legs, ermine. The wyvern on this marks has legs.)
Gallery label
LION SEJANT SPOON Silver, parcel-gilt English provincial (Leicester?) ca.1600 Marked with a wyvern in a shaped punch Given by Miss Marjorie Ball M.21-1975(1975)
Credit line
Given by Miss Majorie Ball
Object history
Gift - Miss Majorie Ball
Acquisition RF: 74 / 475
Subject depicted
Crests
Collection
Metalwork Collection
Accession number
M.21-1975

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Record createdSeptember 10, 2004
Record URL
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