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THE BENSON COLLECTION
(LOTS 301-340)
A ROMAN SILVER SPOON
CIRCA 250-350
Details
A ROMAN SILVER SPOON
CIRCA 250-350
The ovoid bowl with facetted tapering handle, with reeded hook
5 3/8 in. (13.8 cm.)
9 dwt. (13 gr.)
CIRCA 250-350
The ovoid bowl with facetted tapering handle, with reeded hook
5 3/8 in. (13.8 cm.)
9 dwt. (13 gr.)
Provenance
By tradition found in a chalk pit at Northfleet, Kent.
Sir John Noble, 1st Baronet (1865-1938) and by descent to his son
Sir Andrew Noble, Bart.; Christie's, London, 25 November 1943, lot 137 (£52 to How).
The Benson Collection.
Sir John Noble, 1st Baronet (1865-1938) and by descent to his son
Sir Andrew Noble, Bart.; Christie's, London, 25 November 1943, lot 137 (£52 to How).
The Benson Collection.
Literature
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. I, p. 16, pl. 2.
D. J. E. Constable, The Benson Collection of Early Silver Spoons, Golden Cross, 2012, pp. 100-101, no. 34.
D. J. E. Constable, The Benson Collection of Early Silver Spoons, Golden Cross, 2012, pp. 100-101, no. 34.
Exhibited
On loan to the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2006-2012.
Brought to you by
Matilda Burn
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