A Henry VIII Antique English Silver Apostle Spoon: The Chichester Master, 1514
Length: 7.25 in.
Weight: 2 oz. 1 dwt.
London
H0407
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Maker’s Mark: a Gate With a fig shaped bowl, a facetted tapering stem, the gilt finial formed as the Master giving a blessing and holding an orb with cross, surmounted...
Maker’s Mark: a Gate
With a fig shaped bowl, a facetted tapering stem, the gilt finial formed as the Master giving a blessing and holding an orb with cross, surmounted by a Holy Dove nimbus, the back of the bowl initialed RO.
See Jackson p. 89-16 for the maker's mark.
Illustrated and described in G. E. P. How, Silver Spoons and Pre-Elizabethan Hall-Marks on English Plate, 1953, vol. 2, p. 278-81. He explains that a caste copy of this spoon which was once in the Perry Collection is now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The current spoon was once a pair to a St. John apostle spoon now in the Victoria & Albert Museum.
Provenance: The Chichester Collection, before 1925
With a fig shaped bowl, a facetted tapering stem, the gilt finial formed as the Master giving a blessing and holding an orb with cross, surmounted by a Holy Dove nimbus, the back of the bowl initialed RO.
See Jackson p. 89-16 for the maker's mark.
Illustrated and described in G. E. P. How, Silver Spoons and Pre-Elizabethan Hall-Marks on English Plate, 1953, vol. 2, p. 278-81. He explains that a caste copy of this spoon which was once in the Perry Collection is now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The current spoon was once a pair to a St. John apostle spoon now in the Victoria & Albert Museum.
Provenance: The Chichester Collection, before 1925