A fine W.H. Haseler & Co. silver and enamel cigarette box designed for Liberty & Co., shallow rectangular form, the hinged cover set with opal matrix and panels of interlocked decoration enamelled blue and green, mounted on four clusters of triple column supports with entrelac motifs, above a blue and green enamelled base with similar entrelac decoration, (minor losses to enamel) stamped maker's marks WHH and with Birmingham hallmarks for 1904

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A fine W.H. Haseler & Co. silver and enamel cigarette box designed for Liberty & Co., shallow rectangular form, the hinged cover set with opal matrix and panels of interlocked decoration enamelled blue and green, mounted on four clusters of triple column supports with entrelac motifs, above a blue and green enamelled base with similar entrelac decoration, (minor losses to enamel) stamped maker's marks WHH and with Birmingham hallmarks for 1904
6.7cm. high; 20.4cm. long

Lot Essay

Cf. Adrian J. Tilbrook, The Designs of Archibald Knox for Liberty & Co., London 1976, p.134, fig.118, comparable box 'designed by Rex Silver' illustrated ; Victor Arwas, Liberty Style, London 1984, p.114, plate S-119, comparable example illustrated

The design for this box has been credited to both Archibald Knox and Rex Silver, although the Liberty Silver Sketches Catalogue, No. 632, p. 79 attributes it to John Illingworth Kay

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