An assembled set of four early English silver spoons of Scottish historical interest, late 17th century

All with dog-nose or trefid terminal to handle and rattail to bowl backs, possibly bearing a thin layer of gold wash, each by a different unidentified maker: one spoon bearing pre-1680 lion rampant and crowned leopard's head, another bearing rubbed maker's mark, another bearing partially obscured maker's mark, “IE” (?) and engraved with date “1692,” and the last example bearing post-1680 lion rampant and crowned leopard's head and rubbed maker's mark; displayed in an old custom retail box marked, “Hamilton & Inches/ 90 Princes Street/ Edinburgh,” and retaining old note inscribed, “4 ancient fruit spoons date from 1680-1692/ Belonged to Sir William Steuart (sic) of Murthly Castle, Perthshire, Scotland.”

L: 7 ¾ in. (longest), Total weight: 5.745 oz. t.

Provenance

Private collection, South Carolina.

Footnotes

William Stewart of Grandtully (1567-1646) was a Scottish landowner, and a member of the English court. He owned Murthly Castle in Perth and Kinross.