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Slip-Top Spoon

Marked by: Jeremy Johnson
English (London)
about 1650
Object Place: Europe, London, England

Medium/Technique Silver
Dimensions L. 16.4 cm (6 7/16 in.); W. of bowl 4.8 cm (1 7/8 in.); Weight 34 gm ( 1 oz 2 dwt)
Credit Line Anonymous gift in memory of Charlotte Beebe Wilbour (1833-1914)
Accession Number33.210
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsSilver

DescriptionThe spoon has a fig-shaped bowl and a rectangular stem, cut at an oblique angle at the end. The spoon is forged from a single piece. The surface is deeply scratched and pitted.
Marks In bowl, leopard's head crowned; on back of stem near bowl II a mullet below in a plain shield (Kent, 1981, p. 33); lion passant; indistinct date letter
InscriptionsEngraved on slip-top, MG
ProvenanceAnonymous Gift in Memory of Charlotte Beebe Wilbour (1833-1914).
(Accession Date: March 2, 1933)