Lot 8
8
A SILVER PORRINGER

Details
A SILVER PORRINGER
DESIGNED BY C.R. ASHBEE, MADE BY THE GUILD OF HANDICRAFT, 1907

The circular bowl with a swept wirework handle with Gothic stylized-leaf handles joins and grip, marked--6in. long
( oz.)
Literature
This porringer is illustrated in Malcolm Haslam, Collector's Style Guide: Arts and Crafts (New York, 1988), p. 79.

Lot Essay

This porringer illustrates the historicist influence in Ashbee's designs for metalwork made after 1906. The gothic handle joins are typical of Ashbee's late interest in medieval work (see Crawford, op. cit., p. 341).