Baroque silver christening spoon. Ovoid bowl merging into a conical handle with a leaf-like serrated grip. The underside of the bowl with a profiled rat's tail and engraved "M.K 1720 28 Feb.". Grip decorated on both sides with leaf decoration in relief and imperial heads. Leaf-shaped foot. Marked, tremolier stroke, master Johann Holzmann (becomes master 1695). Weight approx. 50 g. L. 18.3 cm. Cf. cat. Germanisches Nationalmuseum, vol. I, part 1, BZ 29, MZ 0385. A German Baroque silver christening spoon by Johann Holzmann (master since 1695). Inscribed and dated. Test, assay and master's mark. German. Nuremberg. Circa 1700.