Fine Silver & Objects of Vertu - 30th October 2018
Lot 895
A Charles I silver Apostle spoon
Estimate £2,000 - £3,000 | Hammer £4800
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Description
A Charles I silver Apostle spoon, St. Paul,
by Daniel Cary, London 1636,
fig shaped bowl, tapering stem, the Apostle finial with traces of gilding and with a holy dove nimbus, the reverse of the bowl later scratch initialled 'AN', length 18.5cm, approx. weight 2.1oz.
Provenance:
The David Constable Collection.
Sotheby's, New Bond Street, November 1995. and written up in Constable, D., The Silver Spoons of Britain,1200-1710, Volume one, Constables Publishing, 2016, pages 277-9, entry number 42.