Fine Silver & Objects of Vertu - 30th October 2018
Lot 924
A William and Mary East Anglian silver Trefid spoon
Estimate £2,500 - £3,000 | Hammer £2500
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Description
A William and Mary East Anglian silver Trefid spoon,
by Thomas Havers, Norwich circa 1691,
the oval bowl with a raised rat-tail, the reverse of the terminal with prick dot initials 'M' over 'I.I', length 18.4cm, approx. weight 1.4oz.
Provenance: A Private Collection,
This spoon is possibly one of the two that were featured in a 1911 loan exhibition of Norwich Silver in the Norwich Castle Museum in 1911. Entry no 31 'Trifid spoon', (two specimens), illustrated in figure 6, lent by Mr. J.H.F. Walter, J.P. The spoon has a very close resemblance to the right-hand spoon in the photograph. A photocopy of the relevant pages from this catalogue are provided with this lot.
G.N Barrett writes in Norwich Silver and its Marks 1565-1750, on page 54, about Trefid spoons, that 'Six are known by Thomas Havers and none are later than 1691.
A pair of spoons by Thomas Havers were sold in these rooms 24/25 April 2018, lot 760, and a single spoon by Havers was also sold in these rooms 24/25 October 2017 lot 888.
These similar examples are illustrated and written up in Constable, D., Silver Spoons of Britain, Constables Publishing 2016, Volume II, pages 648-649, spoon no.125, and Hartop, C., East Anglian Silver 1550-1750, page 66/67, no. 37, 39 and 40.