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<p>[QUOTE="'Nuff_Said, post: 14661, member: 181"]My thoughts are: 19th C. Chinese copy of a 15th/16th/17th C. European spoon, but I could be wrong. Your thoughts, if any?</p><p><br /></p><p>The spoon is made of: brass or gilt-pewter, copper rivets, tiger-cowrie shell, a small branch of black-coral as the handle and mother-of-pearl. The mother-of-pearl finial is engraved with the Chinese character, <i>'Shou (longevity)'.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>A couple of somewhat similar European spoons with shell bowls and/or coral handle with rivets:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O91798/spoon-unknown/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O91798/spoon-unknown/" rel="nofollow">http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O91798/spoon-unknown/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O294981/spoon/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O294981/spoon/" rel="nofollow">http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O294981/spoon/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]3529[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]3530[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]3531[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]3532[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]3533[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]3534[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="'Nuff_Said, post: 14661, member: 181"]My thoughts are: 19th C. Chinese copy of a 15th/16th/17th C. European spoon, but I could be wrong. Your thoughts, if any? The spoon is made of: brass or gilt-pewter, copper rivets, tiger-cowrie shell, a small branch of black-coral as the handle and mother-of-pearl. The mother-of-pearl finial is engraved with the Chinese character, [I]'Shou (longevity)'.[/I] A couple of somewhat similar European spoons with shell bowls and/or coral handle with rivets: [url]http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O91798/spoon-unknown/[/url] [url]http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O294981/spoon/[/url] Thank you! [ATTACH=full]3529[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]3530[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]3531[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]3532[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]3533[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]3534[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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