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Item: Spoon Description: Seal-top Hallmark: Barnstaple circa 1580 by Thomas Matthew Dimensions: 154mm long, 30g weight Comments: A very rare Elizabethan period seal top spoon by one of the most important English provincial silversmiths. The spoon is in fine condition, retaining it's fig-shaped bowl and crisp partial gilt seal terminal with contemporary dot-pricked betrothal initials. The spoon is marked to the bowl with a clear example of the "fruitlet" mark and to the reverse of the stem with the maker's initial "T" and beginning of his surname "MA (conjoined) T...". The maker of this spoon is described by Kent in "Barnstaple Silver" as "One of the most accomplished and prolific of provincial goldsmiths" and he worked in Barnstaple, Devon between 1563 and 1611. The marks found on this spoon can be seen in figure 19. Price: SOLD Ref. No.: OE/9959 Payment options More item information |
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