An early Charles I provincial West Country apostle spoon, with gilded final of St. John, the figure with an uncommon polyfoil nimbus, the large fig-shaped bowl of the spoon has pricked initials (T.D over R.S) on the back. The six-sided stem ends in a moulded capital that serves as a pedestal for the figure of St. John symbolically holding a large chalice. Marked three times to the stem and once to the bowl with the maker's mark of John Quick, c.1625. Cf. Jackson's page 31.1 cm. Length 19.1 cm