Fine Silver & Objects of Vertu - 25th April 2018
Lot 858
A Mary I silver Moor's / Child's Head child's spoon
Estimate £600 - £800 | Hammer £2400
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Description
A Mary I silver Moor's / Child's Head child's spoon,
maker's mark of a crescent enclosing a mullet, for Nicholas Bartholomew, London, 1557,
fig-shaped bowl, tapering faceted stem, the terminal with traces of gilding, length 12.2cm, approx. weight 0.4oz.
Provenance: Sotheby's, London, Fine Silver and Vertu, 29 November 2005, lot 139.
Sotheby's London, 26 November, 1992, lot 11.
Hobart House, Haddam, Connecticut, USA, December, 1992.