Solid Silver Serving Spoon — Silversmith Jean Redard — Neuchâtel, Circa 1740

Solid silver serving spoon
silversmith Jean Redard, active from 1724 to 1766 [Junier Clerc & Krenz, p.71 no. MAH 75]
Switzerland, Neuchâtel, circa 1740
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L 30.5
W 153 g
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A beautiful, heavy-quality pattern with a tapered bowl and a wide, thick, generously chamfered stem.
The silversmith must have used a blank at least 5 mm thick.
Jean Redard is known to have produced some very fine and original pieces of silverware (tea caddy, spice box, marabout teapot, mustard pot, etc.).
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• Maker's mark IR on a clover [de Vevey p.197, no. 1300a; Junier Clerc & Krenz p.71 no. MAH 75a]
• Town hallmark (eagle centered on the shield with three chevrons) [of Vevey p.197 no. 1300A; Junier Clerc & Krenz p.59 no. 23]
Later monogram engraved on the spatula
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Literature
• Caroline Junier Clerc et Vincent Krenz, Orfèvrerie neuchâteloise du XVIIe au XXe siècle, Exposition du 20 juin au 28 novembre 1993, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Neuchâtel 1993
• François-Pierre de Vevey, Manuel des orfèvres de Suisse romande, Sotheby's – Office du Livre, Fribourg 1985