Ragout spoon
Ebenezer Coker (d.1783)
Category
Silver
Date
1754 - 1755
Materials
Silver
Measurements
28.6 cm (Length)
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Ickworth, Suffolk
NT 853248.4
Summary
Ragout spoon, sterling silver, by Ebenezer Coker, London, 1754/5. One of four, two of this date and two of 1751/2. The spoon is forged from a single piece of silver and is of the Hanoverian single drop pattern with a raised egg-shaped bowl, plain, tapering stem and single drop at the junction with the bowl. The terminal is upturned on the bowl side with a slight rib and is engraved on the opposite side to the bowl with the Hervey crest beneath an earl’s coronet.
Full description
For further detail see master object entry.
Provenance
George Hervey, 2nd Earl of Bristol (1721–75); by descent to the 7th Marquess of Bristol (1954-99) and probably sold privately by him; Robert P. Eaton; Christie’s New York, 23 October 2013, lot 116; purchased by the National Trust via Christopher Hartop for $3,800 ($4,750 inclusive of premium), partly funded by gifts and bequests.
Credit line
Ickworth, the Bristol Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Stem: Hallmarks: maker’s mark ‘EC’ italics in a shaped punch (Arthur Grimwade, London Goldsmiths 1697-1837, 1990, no. 556), lion passant, leopard’s head crowned and date letters ‘t’. Stem, near junction with bowl: Scratchweight: '4=1'.
Makers and roles
Ebenezer Coker (d.1783), goldsmith