Silver & Objects of Vertu - Day 2 - 26th October 2022 - 26th October 2022
Lot 814
A Charles II silver Trefid spoon with a Mask
Estimate £3,000 - £4,000 | Hammer £4000
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Description
A Charles II silver Trefid spoon with a Mask,
by Adam King, London 1677,
the reverse of the oval bowl with a raised rat-tail and acanthus leaf decoration, the terminal with a rare mask with a beard within flower, foliate scrolls and acanthus decoration, the reverse of the terminal scratch initialled 'M.V' over 'MB' over '1678', length 19.3cm, approx. weight 1.92oz.
Provenance: The David Constable Collection.
Christie's, King Street, London Centuries of Style, 26 November 2014, lot 464.
The Runnymede Collection.
J.H.Bourdon-Smith, Mason's Yard, London.
Edwin Wilfrid Stanyforth, inherited from this great-uncle.
Rev. Thomas Staniforth (1807-87) of Storrs Hall, Windermere.
Illustrated and written up in Constable, D., Silver Spoons of Britain 1200-1710, Constables Publishing, 2016, Volume 2, pages 692-695, entry number 139 .
Literature:
Almost certainly E. W. Stanyforth, A Collection of Early English Spoons of the 15th, 16th and 17th Century, Formed by the Rev. Thomas Staniforth, the Property of E. W. Stanyforth, 1898.
A Collection of Silversmiths' Work of European Origin, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1901, p. 50, case E, no. 72, pl. XXI.
J. Starkie Gardner, ed., Old Silver Work Chiefly English from the XVth to the XVIIIth Centuries, London, 1902, no. D21, pl. LXXIII.
Exhibited:
London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Exhibition of a Collection of Silversmiths' work of European Origin, 1901, E72 lent by Mr. E. W. Stanyforth.
London, St. James's Court, Old Silver Work Chiefly English from the XVth to the XVIIIth Centuries, 1902, G49, lent by Mr. E. W. Stanyforth.