A Charles II West Country silver Trefid spoon

A Charles II West Country silver Trefid spoon

by John Peard I, Barnstaple circa 1670,

the reverse of the shaped oval bowl with a rudimentary rat-tail, the tapering stem with marked guide lines, the reverse of the terminal with later prick dot initials '1699' over T.D' over 'M.C' within scroll decoration, length 19.8cm, approx. weight 2oz.

Provenance: The David Constable Collection.

Dreweatt's, London, 3 June 2010, The Griffin Collection, lot 82.

Illustrated and written up in Constable, D., Silver Spoons of Britain 1200-1710, Constables Publishing, 2016, Volume 2, pages 634-635, entry number 119 .