Description
Bristol: A fine Elizabeth I spoon, the large gilt figure of St Paul, with a pierced spoked nimbus and a sword, scratched on the back of the bowl D over NH, within scroll prickwork, struck once in the bowl with a quatrefoil and twice on the stem with a maker's mark Tg over a fleur de lys, possibly for Thomas Goodyear, c.1590, 7.25in (18.3cm). See Kent, West Country spoons and their makers, pp.92 and 93, also 97 for details of Richard Harsell, Bristol Goldsmith and Apprentice of Thomas Goodyear, where it notes his use of a quatrefoil mark in the bowl of a Maidenhead spoon
