{"product_id":"milton","title":"An 18th Century English\/Welsh Antique Carved Oak Spoon Rack and Box","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis is a handsome and very wall-worthy piece of Georgian kitchen furniture, the kind of thing that once held a family’s pewter or horn spoons in the parlour, ready for use and on show.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe backboard rises in a stepped crest of lobed outline to a domed roundel. The roundel is chip-cut with a radiating star around a sunk centre and sits above a pair of faceted lozenge bosses in carved circular surrounds. From these, two sprays of stylised leaves fall away on either side, cut in confident low relief. Below runs a moulded spoon bar notched for the spoon stems, and beneath that a carved frieze of oak leaves and small acorns.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe lower stage is a deep, full-width box with a lidded top, hinged at the rear, and a finely nicked front edge. Inside, the underside of the lid still shows lively hand-tooling. The surface throughout has mellowed to a deep, treacly brown patina of real depth, and the reverse is dry and darkened with age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eIt is a charming and characterful survival, and would look equally at home dressed with pewter spoons in a period kitchen or hung alone as a sculptural piece of country carving.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProvenance:\u003c\/strong\u003e England\/Welsh borders. Late 18th century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMaterial:\u003c\/strong\u003e Oak.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Good, sound condition for age, with general marks, knocks and wear consistent with long domestic use. There is some old, inactive worm to the reverse; the reverse has old staining, and the sunk centre to the crest roundel may once have held an applied boss.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e Height 15¾ in (40 cm); width 13¾ in (35 cm)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Holt Antiques at East Raynham","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56570718847318,"sku":"HAF7550","price":695.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0782\/7462\/5878\/files\/70855.jpg?v=1794321058","url":"https:\/\/holtantiquefurniture.com\/products\/milton","provider":"Holt Antiques at East Raynham","version":"1.0","type":"link"}