A James I West Country silver Aphrodite spoon

A James I West Country silver Aphrodite spoon,

by John Quick, Barnstaple circa 1620,

fig-shaped bowl, the reverse of the bowl with a rudimentary rat-tail and prick dot initialled 'S.C' over S.R

within scroll motifs, faceted stem with a gilded finial, length 20cm, approx. weight 1.8oz.

Provenance: The David Constable Collection.

Sotheby's New Bond Street, London, 29 November 2005, The Charles L. Poor Collection, lot 113.

S. J. Shrubsole, New York, December 1995

Christie's 23 February 1983, lot 212.

A Private Collection.

Illustrated and extensively written up in Constable, D., Silver Spoons of Britain 1200-1710, Constables Publishing, 2016, Volume 1, pages 348-358, entry number 59 .