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Apostle spoon (St John)
Silver, parcel-gilt
Origin: London
Date: 1610-1611
18.2 cm length; 62 g weight
Marks/Maker: London, sterling standard, 1610-11, maker's mark a crescent or C enclosing a W, for William Cawdell
Bequeathed by A.T. Carter, 1947; WA1947.88
T. Schroder (2009), no. 329
This maker's mark was used by one of the most prolific spoon makers of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. His most important surviving work is the so-called Tichborne Celebrities of 1592, with finials modelled as pagan and Christian heroes from Alexander the Great to Elizabeth I.
Information derived from T. Schroder, British and Continental Gold and Silver in the Ashmolean (2009)
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