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Spoon

ca. 1650 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Bristol (made)

Silver spoon with cast and gilded finial of St. John the Apostle.


Object details

Categories
Eating
Metalwork
Silver
Tableware & Cutlery
Object type
Spoon
Materials and techniques
hammered, cast and gilded
Silver
Forging
Amalgam Gilding
Brief description
Spoon, Silver, parcel-gilt, Bristol possibly, ca. 1650
Physical description
Silver spoon with cast and gilded finial of St. John the Apostle.
Dimensions
  • Length: 16.5cm
  • Weight: 38.5g
Marks and inscriptions
  • Five-petalled flower maker's mark stamped on reverse, at base of stem. Identity of maker unknown.
  • Circular assay mark, very worn, visible on bowl by stem. (For both marks on another apostle spoon with St John finial, and for Bristol attribution, see Phillips: Spoons (1980), lot 97, and Ellis Catalogue, lots 148, 150 and 155. For Bristol marks, see Kent (1992), p.170.)
  • 'St Iohn' (Inscribed on the stem, above the maker's mark.)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Harold Short
Subject depicted
John the Evangelist (Saint)
Bibliographic references
  • Phillips, London, Friday June 27, 1980: Spoons.
  • Sotheby's (London), Catalogue of a Remarkable Collection of 16th and 17th Century Provincial Spoons, incorporating the entire Collection left by the late H. D. Ellis, Esq., compiled by the late Cmdr G.E.P. How (1935)
Collection
Metalwork Collection
Accession number
M.84-1959

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
Record URL
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