Spoon

Description

Silver disc-end spoon with circular bowl, vestigial rat-tail, joining straight stem flaring out at upper end to a secondary disc, below the disc-end, inscribed 'S / IM', with maker's mark and deacon's mark: Scottish, Edinburgh, Gilbert Kirkwood, 1611 - 1613

Museum reference

H.MEQ 140

Collection

Decorative and Applied Art

Object name

Spoon

Production information

Kirkwood, Gilbert, 1609 - 1625 (fl.), Silversmith
Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, Northern Europe

Date

1611 - 1613

Materials

Silver

Physical description

Silver

On display

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