FRANCES MACDONALD MCNAIR (1874-1921) (ATTRIBUTED DESIGNER) CADDY SPOON, CIRCA 1900 white metal with applied beading, marked verso R (7.5cm long) Footnote: Literature: Larner G. & C.The Glasgow Style, Paul Harris 1980, illus. no. 43 for a similar silver caddy spoon Note: Frances Macdonald and her sister Margaret were skilled in metalware, jewellery and enamelling however few executed pieces of jewellery and silver are known. A group of jewellery, attributed to McNair and engraved to the reverse with the letter R, as in the present lot, was sold at Christie’s, London, in 1992. For similar examples of jewellery in this group with this marking see Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Accession Numbers 2021.7.6 and 2021.7.5.; and Lyon & Turnbull, Design Since 1860, 21 October 2021, lot 357