拍品 334
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A HENRY VII SILVER SEAL-TOP SPOON
THE BENSON COLLECTION (LOTS 301-340)
A HENRY VII SILVER SEAL-TOP SPOON

CIRCA 1500

细节
A HENRY VII SILVER SEAL-TOP SPOON
CIRCA 1500
The fig-shaped bowl with tapering facetted stem, terminating in a fluted seal, engraved with initials, perhaps 'IP' or 'EP' conjoined
6 in. (15.1 cm.) long
1 oz. 3 dwt. (36 gr.)
来源
The Benson Collection by 1952.
出版
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. 216, pl. XX.
D. J. E. Constable, The Benson Collection of Early Silver Spoons, Golden Cross, 2012, pp. 116-117, no. 42.
展览
On loan to the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2006-2012.

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SEAL-TOP SPOONS

While the earliest seal-top spoon which can be exactly dated is the Pudsey spoon of 1525 Commander and Mrs How note examples which stylistically as early as circa 1450. The term seal-top is perhaps something of a misnomer as it would suggest that the finial is intended to be used with wax to seal an envelope however as such the engraving should be reversed and How notes that no example has yet appeared which is so engraved.