Spoon with Carved Figural Coral Handle

ca. 1600–1630

Oval spoon bowl, gilded neck elaborately decorated with leaves, masks and scrollwork. Slightly curving handle of red coral, carved with a grotesque head on the front, above the upper body of a woman holding a ewer in one hand and an urn in the other, as if pouring liquid from one into the other. Back of handle has decorative pattern.