How of Edinburgh - 30th October 2007

Lot 286

Unascribed West Country or Wales: A Charles I/Commonwealth silvergilt spoon

Estimate £300 - £500 | Hammer £700

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Description

Unascribed West Country or Wales: A Charles I/Commonwealth silvergilt spoon, the figure lacking emblems, with a sacred dove nimbus and pricked R.N on the back of the bowl, struck once in the bowl and twice on the stem, with a winged cherub mask, c.1640 to 1650, 7.45in (18.9cm). See Jackson's Revised, p.513 for the mark where it is tentatively ascribed to Newport, Wales