DESIGNED BY C.R. ASHBEE FOR THE GUILD OF HANDICRAFT, 1900
Details
A Silver and Enamel Covered Dish
Designed by C.R. Ashbee for the Guild of Handicraft, 1900
The loop-handled dish with cherry coloured enamelled lid and moonstone finial
9in. (24.2cm.) maximum width
Maker's marks and silver marks for London, 1900 (on lid and dish)
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Lot Essay
Cf: Alan Crawford, op.cit., p. 335, fig. 169 See also: C.R. Ashbee, Modern English Silverwork, London, 1974 (revised edition), pl. 17 (Drawing of a similar example illustrated)