A Charles II unascribed provincial silver Trefid spoon
A Charles II unascribed provincial silver Trefid spoon,
possibly Salisbury area, circa 1684,
the oval bowl with a ribbed rat-tail, the terminal with a central cartouche within foliate scroll decoration, prick-dot initialled 'M' over 'SP' '84', length 19.6cm, approx. weight 1.6oz.
Provenance: The Constable Collection, Lawrence's Crewkerne, 12 October 2010, lot 220. Christie's South Kensington, 10 November 1998, lot 67, from the Paterson Collection.
This spoon is illustrated and written up in Constable, D., Silver Spoons of Britain, Constables Publishing 2016, Volume II, pages 724-725, spoon no.148.