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A COMMONWEALTH WEST COUNTRY SILVER-GILT "BUDDHA" OR ORIENTAL FIGURE KNOP SPOON
Lot 91

A COMMONWEALTH WEST COUNTRY SILVER-GILT "BUDDHA" OR ORIENTAL FIGURE KNOP SPOON

MARK OF IH OR TH IN HEART-SHAPED PUNCH, ONCE IN BOWL AND ONCE AT BASE OF BACK OF STEM, UNTRACED, PROBABLY BARNSTAPLE OR PLYMOUTH AREA , CIRCA 1650

Closed25 February 2014

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A COMMONWEALTH WEST COUNTRY SILVER-GILT "BUDDHA" OR ORIENTAL FIGURE KNOP SPOON
MARK OF IH OR TH IN HEART-SHAPED PUNCH, ONCE IN BOWL AND ONCE AT BASE OF BACK OF STEM, UNTRACED, PROBABLY BARNSTAPLE OR PLYMOUTH AREA , CIRCA 1650
Back of bowl prick-dot engraved 1650 over MI conjoined over GC
7.1/2 in. long (19.1 cm.)
2.75 oz.(approx. 86 gm.)

Specialist note

How volume II, section VI goes into some discussion of the dating of these spoons Ps. 209/215 and Kent reconsiders this on Ps. 19/20 of his West Country book. Kent dates these between circa 1620/1660. Although the gilding on this spoon is considered by some to belater, it is interesting to note that How on P.210 states that the majority of this group were originally gilt.