Live Auction 5367Christie's Interiors
A RARE CHARLES II PROVINCIAL PARCEL-GILT SILVER SEAL-TOP SPOON
Lot 322

A RARE CHARLES II PROVINCIAL PARCEL-GILT SILVER SEAL-TOP SPOON

MAKER'S MARK ONLY OF RW IN A SHAPED PUNCH WITH THREE PELLETS ABOVE AND THREE BELOW (STRUCK THREE TIMES TO BACK OF STEM, REPEATED ONCE IN BOWL), LEEDS, CIRCA 1660

Closed30 September 2008

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GBP 1,875

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A RARE CHARLES II PROVINCIAL PARCEL-GILT SILVER SEAL-TOP SPOON
MAKER'S MARK ONLY OF RW IN A SHAPED PUNCH WITH THREE PELLETS ABOVE AND THREE BELOW (STRUCK THREE TIMES TO BACK OF STEM, REPEATED ONCE IN BOWL), LEEDS, CIRCA 1660
The extended baluster seal with chased stylised leaves with scrolling stems, the top of the seal with prick-dot initials G.A.O
7in. (17.8 cm.) long
2 oz. (62 gr.)

Specialist note

The maker's mark has been noted together with the Golden Fleece mark attributed to Leeds, on a flat-topped tankard.

Ian Pickford (ed.), Jackson's Silver and Gold Marks of England, Scotland & Ireland, Woodbridge, 1989, p. 475.