19TH CENTURY

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A WELSH FRUITWOOD LOVE SPOON
19TH CENTURY
The handle pierced with double 'birdcage' containing four spheres and bearing the date 1849, the conjoined double spoons with spirally turned stems
6¾in. (17cm.) long

Provenance

Woburn Abbey Antiques Centre, 24 April 1993.

Literature

Jonathan Levi, Treen for the Table, Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk 1998. Page 126, pl.

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Lot Essay

The double conjoined spoons symbolise the union of two people we two are one. For comparable examples see W.J. Shepherd Collection, Sothebys London, Wednesday 30th November, and 1st December 1983 lot 678, and Owen Evan-Thomas, Domestic Utensils of Wood, Stobart-Davies, Hertfordshire 1973. Pl.57, fig.H.

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