1984.0070
L. handle 30.0 W. handle max 2.65 min 0.6 T. max 0.4 D. bowl 9.5 x 10.0 L. drop 2.7.
Ladle, soup, Limerick silver by Daniel Lysaght. Tapered bright-cut handle with pointed, slightly downturned, end. Stem unusually thick, thinning where the handle begins to widen rapidly. At handle top, from the point, is a bright-cut oval formed of alternate inward and outward pointing triangles, forming a double row, surrounded outside by a closely spaced zig-zag line (worn), and inside by a similar line, wavy, with a dot in the hollow of each wave, inside and out. This oval contains a sunburst of eight peaks, engraved, of radial lines, with a centre of six small circles arranged 3-2-1. Below this is a second oval, bright-cut, formed of outward D-shapes outside, inward facing inside, with short close-spaced dashes to each side of the band between, and dots in the hollows between the outside D-shapes. This oval contains a crest, griffin rampant, facing l., on a ground. The space between the ovals has a concave line of inverted V-shapes to each side, a dot at the summit of each V. Below the ovals, down the centre of the handle, is a line of nine bell-shaped plant like motifs, the upper larger with a central motif of a circle surrounded by minute circles, a minute circle in the centre. Each of the remaining plant motifs has a minute circle at the apex, and below the series are four minute circles vertically, a bright-cut dash below. The bright-cut edge of the stem has a line of close-spaced fine dashes inside, worn away in places. The underside of the handle is plain, flat. The bowl is hemispherical, the wall thicker at the handle side, with a long pointed drop engraved with the initials P.G.E. Marks: Sterling in rectangle with concave long sides, D.L in rectangle to each side, on underside of the narrow part of the stem.