Lot 443
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THE MORGAN APOSTLES A PAIR OF HENRY VIII PARCEL-GILT SILVER APOSTLE SPOONS
THE MORGAN APOSTLES A PAIR OF HENRY VIII PARCEL-GILT SILVER APOSTLE SPOONS
THE MORGAN APOSTLES A PAIR OF HENRY VIII PARCEL-GILT SILVER APOSTLE SPOONS
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THE MORGAN APOSTLES A PAIR OF HENRY VIII PARCEL-GILT SILVER APOSTLE SPOONS

MARK OF WILLIAM SIMPSON, LONDON, 1544

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THE MORGAN APOSTLES
A PAIR OF HENRY VIII PARCEL-GILT SILVER APOSTLE SPOONS
MARK OF WILLIAM SIMPSON, LONDON, 1544
The gilt finials cast as St. Bartholomew, holding as his attributes of a flaying knife and folds of skin, and St. Simon Zelotes, holding as his attribute a saw, each with a pierced nimbus, each marked in bowl with leopard's head and on stem with lion passant, maker's mark and date letter
7 5/8 in. (19.5 cm.) long
3 oz. 12 dwt. (116 gr.)
Provenance
J. P. Morgan (1867-1943), by 1937 and then by descent to
The Morgan Collection; Christie's, New York, 26 October 1982, lot 57.
with S. J. Shrubsole.
A New England Collection; Christie's, New York, 16 April 1999, lot 245.
with J. H. Bourdon-Smith, London, April 1999.
Literature
Inventory of J. P. Morgan's English Residences, 12 Grosvenor Square, London, W.1., and Wall Hall, near Watford, Hertfordshire, Messrs Crichton Brothers, 1937, The Pierpont Morgan Library Mss., New York.
M. Clayton, Christie's Pictorial History of English and American Silver, Woodbridge, 1985, p. 42, fig. 3.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

William Simpson: Maker's Mark 'Fringed S'

The attribution to William Simpson of the maker's mark 'fringed S', which appears on the present spoon, as well as on a great number of other high quality spoons dating from around 1510 to 1545, was made by Timothy Kent (T. Kent, London Silver Spoon Makers, London, 1981, pp. 9-10). Like the other extant apostle spoons by William Simpson the present pair of spoons are of good gauge and with finely cast finials. The finials of St. Bartholomew and St. Simon Zelotes here can be compared to other examples by Simpson such as the Master and Twelve from the Dor collection, (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, 1953, vol. II, p. 26-27).

For further information on apostle spoons see lot 439.

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