拍品 910
  • 910

A WILLIAM AND MARY SILVER-GILT ENGRAVED TREFID SPOON, LONDON, 1690 |

估價
1,000 - 1,500 USD
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描述

  • marked on back, maker's mark not clear
  • Length 7 in.
  • 17.8 cm.
the front engraved with scrolling foliage topped by a spread-winged bird, the back with foliage and pricked initials EC, the bowl with laceback rat-tail flanked by engraved leaves

來源

How of Edinburgh, London, March 1988;
Vogel Collection no. 496.

Condition

no visible maker; otherwise excellent
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拍品資料及來源

Ian Pickford notes of this rat-tail "a more rare type is the scroll decorated ribbed rat-tail," see Silver Flatware English, Irish, and Scottish 1660-1980, 1980, p. 75. Here it is combined with fine engraving; including, instead of the more usual mask or cherub head, a spread-winged bird.