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Baluster Seal Top spoon
Silversmith: Unidentified
Silver-gilt; the spoon has a fig-shaped bowl on a tapering, slightly flattened, hexagonal stem. The seal top finial has a flattened gadrooned knop above a gadrooned urn-shaped baluster knop. The back of the bowl is prick engraved 'CR'. The gilding is old but not contemporary with the manufacture of the spoon.
Marks: On the bowl is a leopard's head. On the stem is (1) a lion passant (2) date letter P for 1572-73 (3) maker's mark of a crescent enclosing a mullet.
T. H. Riches Bequest, 1935
Length: 17.8 cm
Length: 7 in
Weight: 65 g
Weight: 2:2 oz:dwt
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1935) by Riches, Thomas Henry
16th Century, third quarter#
Elizabethan
1572
CE
-
1573
CE
The maker's mark of a crescent enclosing a mullet has not been identified, but as a large number of spoons, made between about 1550 and 1630, bear this mark it must have been used by a succession of specialist spoonmakers.
Surface
composed of
gold
Finial
Spoon
Inscription present: a crescent enclosing a mullet
Inscription present: lion passant
Inscription present: small gothic
Inscription present: leopard's head crowned
Accession number: M.5-1950
Primary reference Number: 139845
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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