A James I East Anglian silver Slip-top spoon

A James I East Anglian silver Slip-top spoon,

marked with a stylised fleur-de-lys or trefoil in a pelleted circle, unascribed, probably Suffolk, circa 1610,

the reverse of the fig-shaped bowl with scratch initials 'WEN', the terminal with a notch, length 15.5cm, approx. weight 1oz.

Provenance: The Constable Collection, Daniel Bexfield.

This spoon is illustrated and written up in Constable, D., Silver Spoons of Britain, Constables Publishing 2016, Volume I, pages 144-145, spoon no.16.

See Hartop, c., East Anglian Silver 1550-1750, 2004 page 88, spoon no. 63 and 64 for spoons with the same marks.