The Morgan Apostle Spoons: a pair of Henry VIII parcel-gilt silver Apostle spoons, William Simpson, London, 1544
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
the gilt finials cast as St. Bartholomew, holding as his attributes of a flaying knife and folds of skin, and St. Simon Zelotes, holding as his attribute a saw, each with a pierced nimbus, fully marked
(2)
19 cm., 7½ in. long
115 gr, 3.65 oz.
J.P. Morgan (1867-1943), by 1937 and thence by descent,
Christie's, New York, The Morgan Collection, 26 October 1982, lot 57,
with S.J. Shrubsole, New York,
Christie's, New York, A New England Collection, 16 April 1999, lot 245,
with J.H. Bourdon-Smith, London, 1999,
Christie's, London, 25-26 November 2014, lot 443.
Inventory of J. P. Morgan's English Residences, 12 Grosvenor Square, London, W.1., and Wall Hall, near Watford, Hertfordshire; Messrs Crichton Brothers; 1937; The Pierpont Morgan Library Mss., New York;
M. Clayton; Christie's Pictorial History of English and American Silver; Woodbridge; 1985; p.42, fig. 3
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