Silver & Objects of Vertu - Day 2 - 26th October 2022 - 26th October 2022
Lot 805
A Charles I West Country silver Buddha spoon
Estimate £4,000 - £6,000
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Description
A Charles I West Country silver Buddha spoon,
by Richard Chandler, Plymouth circa 1637,
fig-shaped bowl, the reverse of the bowl with a rudimentary rat-tail and prick-dot initialled '1637' over G.D' over 'F', faceted tapering stem, with a gilded finial, length 19.2cm, approx. weight 1.8oz.
Provenance: The David Constable Collection.
Bonhams and Brooks, Knightsbridge, London, The Winfield Collection, 6 March 2001, lot no. 98.
Bought by C. Winfield, Cambridge on 14 June 1973 from How of Edinburgh .
Sotheby's, New Bond Street, London, The J. H. Walter Collection, 1-2 July 1954, lot no, 191, purchased by How of Edinburgh.
Illustrated and written up in Constable, D., Silver Spoons of Britain 1200-1710, Constables Publishing, 2016, Volume 1, pages 374-376, entry number 66 .