A Charles I West Country silver Seal-top spoon

A Charles I West Country silver Seal-top spoon,

by William Ring, Shaftesbury, circa 1642,

fig-shaped bowl, faceted tapering stem, the gilded seal-top finial prick-dot initialled 'P.C' over 'C.H' over '1642', length 17.1cm, approx. weight 1.5oz.

Provenance:

The David Constable Collection.

J. H. Bourdon-Smith Limited.

Illustrated and written up in Constable, D., The Silver Spoons of Britain,1200-1710, Volume one, Constables Publishing, 2016, pages 474/475, entry number 89.