Fine Silver & Objects of Vertu - 30th October 2018
Lot 878
A Charles II silver Puritan spoon
Estimate £1,000 - £1,500 | Hammer £2300
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Description
A Charles II silver Puritan spoon,
by Gawen Udall, London 1662,
oval bowl, tapering stem, the reverse of the terminal with scratch initials '*' over 'DB', length 19.7cm, approx. weight 1.7oz.
Provenance:
The David Constable Collection.
Phillips, New Bond Street, 24 April 1998, lot number 164.
Illustrated and written up in Constable, D., The Silver Spoons of Britain,1200-1710, Volume two, Constables Publishing, 2016, pages 542/3, entry number 111.
This spoon is of interest as it is at the end of the Puritan period and shows the transition to the Trefid.