Live Auction 9340Important Silver, Objects of Vertu and Russian Works of Art
A DUTCH SILVER BASTING SPOON WITH MARROW SCOOP
Lot 139

A DUTCH SILVER BASTING SPOON WITH MARROW SCOOP

AMSTERDAM, 1778, MAKER'S MARK IS

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A DUTCH SILVER BASTING SPOON WITH MARROW SCOOP
Amsterdam, 1778, maker's mark IS
The tubular handle with reeded bands and with baluster finial, threaded at the mid-band to reveal a detachable marrow scoop, marked on reverse of bowl
17in. (43.3cm.) long, the marrow scoop 9.3/8in. (23.7cm.) long; 9oz. (284gr.)

Specialist note

A nearly identical basting spoon, also with hidden marrow scoop, is in the collection of the Rijksmuseum. Made in 1777 by Jacobus Helweg of Amsterdam, it is illustrated in Jan Rudolph de Lorm, Amsterdams Goud en Zilver, Rijksmuseum, n.d. [1999], p. 409, fig. 290.