A Mary I silver Moor's / Child's Head child's spoon

A Mary I silver Moor's / Child's Head child's spoon,

maker's mark of a crescent enclosing a mullet, for Nicholas Bartholomew, London, 1557,

fig-shaped bowl, tapering faceted stem, the terminal with traces of gilding, length 12.2cm, approx. weight 0.4oz.

Provenance: Sotheby's, London, Fine Silver and Vertu, 29 November 2005, lot 139.

Sotheby's London, 26 November, 1992, lot 11.

Hobart House, Haddam, Connecticut, USA, December, 1992.