Fine Silver - 25th October 2017
Lot 905
A James I East Anglian silver Slip-top spoon
Estimate £1,500 - £2,000 | Hammer £3200
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Description
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.