Lot 656
  • 656

AN AMERICAN SILVER BASTING SPOON, PETER VAN DYCK, NEW YORK, CIRCA 1720

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description

  • marked on back of bowl V/P.D in trefoil reserve, the ring apparently unmarked.
  • length 16 in.
  • 40.6 cm
the hollow tapering handle with a small baluster finial, bowl with a long rattail and engraved with block initials P+K. Together with a gold ring engraved with mirror cipher PK.

Provenance

Pieter Koeymans
Jonathan Trace, January 1996

Condition

spoon with small dings to handle, the mark on reverse of bowl appears as a dent in bowl; ring with some scratches or rubbed engraving to one side of cipher
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