A late-14th / early-15th Century French silver Slip-top spoon

A late-14th / early-15th Century French silver Slip-top spoon,

Orleans,

the fig-shaped bowl with restoration and repair, the reverse of the bowl with initialled F.D.R', the slip-top with a trace of gilding, length 15.7cm, approx. weight 1.1oz.

Provenance: A Private Collection, Edinburgh, circa 1952, and thence by descent to the current owner.

Written up and illustrated in How, English and Scottish Silver Spoons, privately printed 1952, Volume one, page 50/51, Chapter I, Section III, Plate 8.