A rare Mary Tudor silver Wrythen Knop silver spoon

A rare Mary Tudor silver Wrythen Knop silver spoon,

maker's mark of a cross with a pellet, London 1556,

fig shaped bowl, tapering stem, the finial with traces of gilding, length 16.6cm, approx. weight 1.4oz.

Provenance:

A Private Collection.

Bonham's, New Bond Street, London, 2 July 2008, lot 85.

The Quernmore Collection.

Purchased from Ian Pickford Limited on the 17th March 1998.

This spoon was discovered by Dennis Price while digging in his garden in Chester in 1997. The spoon was in two pieces and had parted neatly at the notch joint. This find was written up in the Finial Volume 9/01, Aug/Sept 1998 page 37.

For an illustration of the maker's mark, see How, Commander G.E.P and Jane Penrice, English and Scottish silver spoons and pre-Elizabethan silver hallmarks on English plate, volume III, page 37, cycle IV.