A Charles I silver Stump Top spoon

A Charles I silver Stump Top spoon,

by Benjamin Yates, London circa 1635,

fig-shaped bowl, the reverse of the bowl with rudimentary rat-tail and prick-dot initialled 'E.T', faceted tapering stem, the terminal with eight facets, length 18.1cm, approx. weight 1.9oz.

Provenance: The David Constable Collection.

Lawrence's Crewkerne, Somerset, 10 October 2001, lot 192.

A Private Collection.

Christie's South Kensington,15 April 1998, lot 121.

Illustrated and written up in Constable, D., Silver Spoons of Britain 1200-1710, Constables Publishing, 2016, Volume 1, pages 170-171, entry number 27 .