A ROMAN SILVER SPOON
CIRCA 350 A.D.
The circular bowl with rat-tail, with tapering facetted handle
5 5/8 in. (14.3 cm.) long
2 dwt. (0.32 gr.)
A ROMAN SILVER SPOON
CIRCA 350 A.D.
The circular bowl with rat-tail, with tapering facetted handle
5 5/8 in. (14.3 cm.) long
2 dwt. (0.32 gr.)
Excavated in London, circa 1950 and presented to Mrs. How.
The Benson Collection by 1952.
Commander G. E. P. How and J. P. How, English and Scottish Silver Spoons, Mediaeval to Late Stuart and Pre-Elizabethan Hallmarks on English Plate, London, 1952, vol. 1, p. 364, pl. 7.
D. J. E. Constable, The Benson Collection of Early Silver Spoons, Golden Cross, 2012, pp. 20-21, no. 2.
On loan to the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2006-2012.
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