On three winged cherub feet, the tapering cylindrical body chased in centre with a fruiting vine flanked by initials 'MFB' within a laurel wreath, and below the rim with inscription, the scroll handle with female bust terminal, the domed cover engraved with moorish strapwork and with bud finial, marked underneath and with later French import marks
6⅝ in. (16.8 cm.) high
12 oz. 19 dwt. (403 gr.)
The inscription engraved below the rim reads 'VINVM MODICÆ SVMPTVM CONPORTAT VICES IMODICE PROSTERNIT'.

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A silver-gilt spoon with the same unidentified maker's mark, inscribed 1573, is in the Nationalmuseum Munich.
(Rosenberg, Der Goldschmiede Merkzeichen, Frankfurt, 1925, p. 280, 4386, no. 4382.)