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THE BENSON COLLECTION
(LOTS 301-340)
A HENRY VII SILVER DIAMOND-POINT SPOON
LONDON, 1498, MAKER'S MARK AN ARROWHEAD
Details
A HENRY VII SILVER DIAMOND-POINT SPOON
LONDON, 1498, MAKER'S MARK AN ARROWHEAD
The fig-shaped bowl with facetted tapering handle, terminating in a diamond finial, the bowl later stamped with initials 'KD', marked in bowl with leopard's head, the back of the handle marked with maker's mark and date letter
5 7/8 in. (15 cm.) long
15 dwt. (24 gr.)
LONDON, 1498, MAKER'S MARK AN ARROWHEAD
The fig-shaped bowl with facetted tapering handle, terminating in a diamond finial, the bowl later stamped with initials 'KD', marked in bowl with leopard's head, the back of the handle marked with maker's mark and date letter
5 7/8 in. (15 cm.) long
15 dwt. (24 gr.)
Provenance
The Benson Collection by 1952.
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. 9, no. 2 and p. 96, pl. 10.
D. J. E. Constable, The Benson Collection of Early Silver Spoons, Golden Cross, 2012, pp. 90-91, no. 30.
D. J. E. Constable, The Benson Collection of Early Silver Spoons, Golden Cross, 2012, pp. 90-91, no. 30.
Exhibited
On loan to the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2006-2012.
Brought to you by
Matilda Burn
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