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拍品专文
Maidenhead Spoons
The maidenhead finial was probably most popular during the 16th and first half of the 17th centuries, though they were also produced earlier as shown by an inventory of 1446 where two spoons are described as 'cum ymaginibus Beatus Mariae in fine eorundum' (T. Kent, in his introduction to D. J. E. Constable, The Benson Collection of Early Silver Spoons, Golden Cross, 2012, p. 4). Another early example is one of circa 1450 with a cinquefoil maker's mark (The Benson Collection, Christie's, London, 4 June, 2013, lot 322, £9,375). The form is known to be made both in London (see 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, pp. 126-127, pl. 4 for examples ranging in date from 1518-1598) and in provincial towns, such as the present example.
John Edes, Silversmith
John Edes was a prominent silversmith working in Exeter. As recorded by Timothy Kent (T. Kent, op. cit., p. 86) he was granted his freedom on 26 September of 1580, having been apprenticed to John Jones. While much of his surviving work is spoons he is also known to have made the mounts for stoneware jugs and church plate. Timothy Kent describes his spoons as being '... some of the best provincial spoons of the period...' He was buried on 23 November 1616.
The maidenhead finial was probably most popular during the 16th and first half of the 17th centuries, though they were also produced earlier as shown by an inventory of 1446 where two spoons are described as 'cum ymaginibus Beatus Mariae in fine eorundum' (T. Kent, in his introduction to D. J. E. Constable, The Benson Collection of Early Silver Spoons, Golden Cross, 2012, p. 4). Another early example is one of circa 1450 with a cinquefoil maker's mark (The Benson Collection, Christie's, London, 4 June, 2013, lot 322, £9,375). The form is known to be made both in London (see 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, pp. 126-127, pl. 4 for examples ranging in date from 1518-1598) and in provincial towns, such as the present example.
John Edes, Silversmith
John Edes was a prominent silversmith working in Exeter. As recorded by Timothy Kent (T. Kent, op. cit., p. 86) he was granted his freedom on 26 September of 1580, having been apprenticed to John Jones. While much of his surviving work is spoons he is also known to have made the mounts for stoneware jugs and church plate. Timothy Kent describes his spoons as being '... some of the best provincial spoons of the period...' He was buried on 23 November 1616.