Fine Silver & Objects of Vertu - 30th October 2018
Lot 882
A Charles I West Country silver Seal-top spoon
Estimate £1,000 - £1,500 | Hammer £2400
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Description
A Charles I West Country silver Seal-top spoon,
by William Ring, Shaftesbury, circa 1642,
fig-shaped bowl, faceted tapering stem, the gilded seal-top finial prick-dot initialled 'P.C' over 'C.H' over '1642', length 17.1cm, approx. weight 1.5oz.
Provenance:
The David Constable Collection.
J. H. Bourdon-Smith Limited.
Illustrated and written up in Constable, D., The Silver Spoons of Britain,1200-1710, Volume one, Constables Publishing, 2016, pages 474/475, entry number 89.