However is he really unknown? Or do I have the wrong book?
Spoon Friesland
Spoon Friesland
This beautiful spoon is as far as I can find from an unknown silversmith from Leeuwarden. It is marked with MN. Worked from 1734
However is he really unknown? Or do I have the wrong book?
However is he really unknown? Or do I have the wrong book?
Re: Spoon Friesland
Hi,
Frisian silver decorative spoon, eighteenth century.
On the end of the spoon handle, the finial, symbolic representation of Wisdom.
Wisdom, the representation shows a woman holding up a mirror in her right hand, turned towards the viewer. In literature this representation is often referred to as Prudence or Prudentia. In her left hand she probably holds a Remora, a snake-like fish. In Naturalis Historia by Pliny The Elder (AD 23/24–79) this snake-like fish from the family of the Echeneidae is described "where it attaches itself to ships and thus slows down their speed". The stem finial in fact shows self-knowledge and not acting hastily as aspects of Wisdom
To my knowledge the maker's mark MN in monogram/ conjoined in oval is of an unknown master, active Leeuwarden 1734.
Peter.
Source; Jan Schipper, Friese zilveren sierlepels uit de achttiende eeuw en Zilverstudie.Nl
Frisian silver decorative spoon, eighteenth century.
On the end of the spoon handle, the finial, symbolic representation of Wisdom.
Wisdom, the representation shows a woman holding up a mirror in her right hand, turned towards the viewer. In literature this representation is often referred to as Prudence or Prudentia. In her left hand she probably holds a Remora, a snake-like fish. In Naturalis Historia by Pliny The Elder (AD 23/24–79) this snake-like fish from the family of the Echeneidae is described "where it attaches itself to ships and thus slows down their speed". The stem finial in fact shows self-knowledge and not acting hastily as aspects of Wisdom
To my knowledge the maker's mark MN in monogram/ conjoined in oval is of an unknown master, active Leeuwarden 1734.
Peter.
Source; Jan Schipper, Friese zilveren sierlepels uit de achttiende eeuw en Zilverstudie.Nl