A Rare American Silver Figural Spoon, Henricus Boelen II, New York, early 18th century

in Dutch style with cast lobate scroll handle and caryatid terminal, the egg-shaped rat-tail bowl engraved with contemporary initials EFD

By descent to Harold Stevens Hutton of Nyack, NY, to
Marylin Jackson, his step-daughter;
Sold Sotheby's, New York, 16-18 January 1997, lot 103

A similar spoon by this maker is illustrated in Belden, Marks of American Silversmiths in the Ineson-Bissell Collection, pp. 478-479, and mark p. 65.

For a similar spoon by Jacob Boelen see Sotheby's, New York, January 30, 1991, lot 152, and for another by Jurian Blanck, see Sotheby's, New York, June 29, 1989, lot 139 (now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art).

initials and mark a little rubbed, some wear to handle terminal
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