A Charles II Scottish silver Trefid spoon

A Charles II Scottish silver Trefid spoon,

by Edward Cleghorne, Edinburgh circa 1669-79,

oval bowl, the reverse with a ribbed rat-tail, the reverse of the terminal scratch initialled 'H' under a rainbow,

for the Hope Family of Hopetoun House, length 18.5cm, approx. weight 1.5oz.

Provenance:

The David Constable Collection.

Nicholas Shaw Antiques.

Sir John Noble Collection

How of Edinburgh

Sotheby's Gleneagles, August 1994

Colonel Price Wood Collection.

Illustrated and written up in Constable, D., The Silver Spoons of Britain,1200-1710, Volume two, Constables Publishing, 2016, pages 918/919, entry number 209.

Illustrated in How, Silver Spoons, (vol II, Page 364), plate 2, and Findlay, I., Scottish Gold and Silver Work, 1991, pages 123 and plate 53).

Exhibited Royal Museum of Scotland 1948.

This spoon originally came from a set of four that was the earliest known set of Scottish trefid spoons.