A Charles II Wessex area silver Shaded Roundels spoon

A Charles II Wessex area silver Shaded Roundels spoon,

marked once to the bowl and three times to the stem with a fleur-de-lys within a beaded circle, Wiltshire / Hampshire area, circa 1679,

shaped oval bowl, tapering stem with shaded roundel decoration, the reverse of the stem prick-dot initialled 'AP' over 'RP' over '1679', length 19.4cm, approx. weight 1.36oz.

Provenance: The David Constable Collection.

J. H. Bourdon-Smith Ltd., Mason's Yard, London

Phillips, New Bond Street, London, Fine Silver, 7 July 2000, lot 413.

Private Collection.

Illustrated and written up in Constable, D., Silver Spoons of Britain 1200-1710, Constables Publishing, 2016, Volume 2, pages 734-735, entry number 152 .

The maker's mark is from the Wiltshire / Hampshire area, and a similar mark has been found on church plate at Wherwell near Andover.