Set of six silver gilt teaspoons in the form of the coronation spoon marked for London 1901 by Wakely & Wheeler. Made to mark the ocasion of the Coronation of Edward VII on the 26th June 1902.
Dimensions: 10.5 cm long by 2.1 cm across the bowl. The Case measures 15.3 cm deep by 17.8 cm wide by 3 cm thick.
Weight: 66 grams.
The 27cm long English Coronation Spoon dates from the late 12th century. It is silver-gilt and set with four pearls added in the 17th century. A ridge divides the bowl in half, creating grooves into which the Archbishop of Canterbury dips two fingers and anoints the monarch, confirming him or her as Supreme Governor of the Church of England. Originally, the spoon may have been used for mixing water and wine in a chalice, and it is first known to have been used to anoint a monarch at the English coronation of James I in 1603. It is the oldest surviving piece of Royal regalia, first recorded in the Royal Collection in 1349 as “a spoon of ancient form”, and was probably made for Henry II or Richard I.
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