A Charles II West Country silver Lace-back Trefid spoon

A Charles II West Country silver Lace-back Trefid spoon,

by Ellen Dare, Taunton circa 1683,

the reverse of the oval bowl with a ribbed rat-tail and scroll decoration, the terminal also with scroll decoration, the reverse of the terminal prick dot initialled 'IS' over '1683' over 'TB' , length 19cm, approx. weight 1.4oz.

Provenance:

The David Constable Collection.

The Patterson Collection, Christie's South Kensington,10 November 1998, lot 56.

Bought by David Patterson from J.H. Bourdon-Smith Ltd. in June 1980.

The pair to this spoon was sold in these rooms, 25 April 2017, lot 1169.

The finial and reverse of bowl are Illustrated in Constable, D., The Silver Spoons of Britain,1200-1710, Volume two, Constables Publishing, 2016, pages 586, fig. 7.69, and page 598, fig. 7.99.