Lot 360
GLASGOW - A RARE SCOTTISH PROVINCIAL HASH SPOON
ROBERT GILCHRIST
Scottish Works of Art & Whisky
Auction: Lots 1 - 412 | 20 August 2024 at 10am
Description
marked RG, S, town mark, RG, Hanoverian pattern with initials DP to terminal
Dimensions
36.5cm long 7.7oz
Provenance
‘The Scottish Sale’, Bonhams Edinburgh 21st August 2003 lot 74
Footnote
This Hash spoon would appear to be one of as few as four surviving pieces of silver by Robert Gilchrist of Glasgow. Trained by William Clerk he is first mentioned in 1719. Little is known about his working career which is a unusual as he was trained by, arguably, the finest goldsmith in Glasgow at the time but does not appear to have made much impact. It seems likely that while working on his own, shown by the survival of his maker’s mark, he was mainly working for other makers. This spoon along with two quaichs (one in a Private Collection the other within the collection of Dundee Art Galleries and Museums) and a table spoon (lot 316) are his only recorded works.