APRIL FINE ESTATES, ART & STERLING SILVER
Lot 92:
Description
3 Antique Sterling Silver Mote Spoons. 10" & 8 1/2". Approximate Silver weight 52 grams. The mote spoon?s short life began in the late 17th century, with the London Gazette describing these elegant and charming spoons as: ?long or strainer spoons with narrow pointed ends. Intended to be used to strain tea and the pointy end to clear spouts, the general public did not take especially well to the mote spoon, and they only remained as part of a tea-ware service until the end of the eighteenth century due to the arrival of the tea strainer. PROVENANCE: The Perrin family, of French Huguenot origin, of Abbeville, Perrin Plantation and Cotton Level Plantation.
Condition: good
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