Fine Silver & Objects of Vertu - 30th October 2018
Lot 898
An Elizabeth I silver Apostle spoon
Estimate £4,000 - £6,000 | Hammer £7800
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Description
An Elizabeth I silver Apostle spoon, St. Paul,
by Francis Jackson, London 1566,
fig-shaped bowl, faceted tapering stem with a gilded Apostle finial with a pierced nimbus, length 18.3cm, approx. weight 1.9oz.
Provenance:
The David Constable Collection.
Bonhams, Bond Street, 22 June 2011, lot 281.
A Private Collection.
S.J. Shrubsole.
Illustrated and written up in Constable, D., The Silver Spoons of Britain,1200-1710, Volume one, Constables Publishing, 2016, pages 250-253, entry number 35.