A Charles II silver-gilt Seal-top spoon

A Charles II silver-gilt Seal-top spoon,

possibly by Peter Longmaker, London 1678,

fig-shaped bowl, tapering stem with a large seal-top finial, prick dot initialled 'I*L', length 18.5cm, approx. weight 2,9oz.

Provenance:

The David Constable Collection.

J. H. Bourdon-Smith Ltd.

An Australian Collector.

Sotheby's, New Bond Street, 28 April 1949, lot no.39. bought by Mrs How of Edinburgh, the property of L. F. Maddison, Esq.

Illustrated and written up in Constable, D., The Silver Spoons of Britain,1200-1710, Volume one, Constables Publishing, 2016, pages 484/5, entry number 94.

Illustrated in J. H. Bourdon-Smith Autumn catalogue, no.34, 1991, page 8.

Information on the maker's mark was kindly supplied by Dr David Mitchell.

This massive finial type occurred over a fifty year period starting around 1629.