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THE BENSON COLLECTION
(LOTS 301-340)
A SILVER-GILT APOSTLE SPOON
19TH CENTURY, MAKER'S MARK FOUR PELLETS WITHIN A CIRCLE
Details
A SILVER-GILT APOSTLE SPOON
19TH CENTURY, MAKER'S MARK FOUR PELLETS WITHIN A CIRCLE
With facetted tapering handle, terminating in a finial cast as either St. Jude or St. Thomas, holding either the long cross or spear, with the top lacking, marked in the bowl
7½ in. (19.2 cm.) long
2 oz. 1 dwt. (64 gr.)
19TH CENTURY, MAKER'S MARK FOUR PELLETS WITHIN A CIRCLE
With facetted tapering handle, terminating in a finial cast as either St. Jude or St. Thomas, holding either the long cross or spear, with the top lacking, marked in the bowl
7½ in. (19.2 cm.) long
2 oz. 1 dwt. (64 gr.)
Provenance
The Benson Collection by 1953.
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. II, p. 374, pl. XX.
D. J. E. Constable, The Benson Collection of Early Silver Spoons, Golden Cross, 2012, pp. 122-124, no. 45.
D. J. E. Constable, The Benson Collection of Early Silver Spoons, Golden Cross, 2012, pp. 122-124, no. 45.
Exhibited
On loan to the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2006-2012.
Brought to you by
Matilda Burn
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