A Charles II West Country silver Puritan Transitional (Trefid) spoon

A Charles II West Country silver Puritan Transitional (Trefid) spoon,

no maker's mark, Exeter circa 1669,

oval bowl, tapering stem with engraved decoration, the reverse of the terminal prick dot initialled 'M.S' over '1669', length 16.7cm, approx. weight 1.09oz.

Provenance:

The David Constable Collection.

J.H. Bourdon-Smith Ltd.

The Patterson Collection, Christie's South Kensington,10 November 1998, lot 53.

Illustrated and written up in Constable, D., The Silver Spoons of Britain,1200-1710, Volume two, Constables Publishing, 2016, pages 546/7, entry number 113.