Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

TWO PEWTER DOG NOSE ROYAL PORTRAIT TABLESPOONS

18TH CENTURY

each with a portrait to the end of the stem, no maker's mark and perhaps made within or for the North American market, a rat tail to the reverse of the bowl in a scrolling cartouche, together with two English pewter fiddle pattern tablespoons, unidentified maker, with LONDON label to reverse of stems (4)

21cm long (max)

Provenance

The Carl Ricketts Collection of Pewter.

Literature

For a similar Royal portrait spoon see P. Hornsby, ‘Pewter of the Western World’ (1983), p.183, fig.583.