Silver & Objects of Vertu - Day 2 - 26th October 2022 - 26th October 2022
Lot 811
A William III West Country silver Lace-back Trefid spoon
Estimate £2,000 - £2,500 | Hammer £2000
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Description
A William III West Country silver Lace-back Trefid spoon,
by Richard Sweet II, Chard circa 1700,
oval bowl, the reverse of the bowl with a raised rat-tail and foliate scroll decoration, the terminal with stylised flowers, the reverse of the terminal with prick-dot initials 'D.D' over '1701', length 20.1cm, approx. weight 1.89oz.
Provenance: The David Constable Collection.
J. H. Bourdon-Smith Limited, Mason's Yard, London.
Phillips, New Bond Street, London, 7 November 1997, lot 183.
Illustrated and written up in Constable, D., Silver Spoons of Britain 1200-1710, Constables Publishing, 2016, Volume 2, pages 680-683, entry number 136 .