Spoon with squirrel knop known as the Gilbert Spoon
Engraved on the reverse of the bowl with the arms of Adrian Gilbert and on the stem with his dated monogram: DEVON AG 1596. The engraved number IV on the front of the bowl would suggest that this spoon was originally part of a set.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 21/2013
- Category
- Decorative Art
- Collection Class
- Silver
- Material
- silver
- Common Name
- spoon with squirrel knop known as the Gilbert Spoon
- Simple Name
- spoon
- Inscription Transcription
- IV; DEVON AG 1596
- Period Classification
- Elizabethan (1558-1603)
- Production Town
- Exeter
- Production County
- Devon
- Production Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Production Date
- c 1580
- Production Person Initials
- John
- Production Person Surname
- Eydes
- Production Year Low
- 1580
- Production Year High
- 1596
