A large James II West Country silver Trefid spoon

A large James II West Country silver Trefid spoon,

by John Pike I, Plymouth circa 1688,

the oval bowl with a rudimentary rat-tail, tapering stem, the reverse of the bowl prick-dot initialled 'AP' over 'ES' over '1688', length 24cm, approx. weight 2.2oz.

Provenance:

The David Constable Collection.

Bonhams, New Bond Street, 21 March 2003, The Griffin Collection (Part VI). lot 168.

How of Edinburgh.

Illustrated and written up in Constable, D., The Silver Spoons of Britain,1200-1710, Volume one, Constables Publishing, 2016, pages 638/639, entry number 121.