Tea spoon
Category
Silver
Date
Unknown
Materials
Silver
Collection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 935806.5
Summary
One of six salt spoons from a set of ten believed to be by William Strange, c. 1730. 'The Hanoverian pattern spoons have extended drops on the back of their bowls and are engraved on the underside of the handle with the initials GW and an earl's coronet... [They] were evidently intended to accompany the salt cellars...' (Lomax and Rothwell, 'Country House Silver from Dunham Massey', 2006, pp. 75) DUN/S/307 and DUN/S/473.
Provenance
Stamford collection; devised to the National Trust by Roger Grey, 10th Earl of Stamford (1896-1976). Purchased by the Earl of Stamford from Sir John Grey, c.1928.