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An identical porringer of the same year is illustrated in Kurland and Zabar et al., Reflections: Arts & Crafts Metalwork in England and the United States (New York, 1990), color plate, p. 15.
Alan Crawford describes this porringer design as the most "characteristic and successful" application of Ashbee's graceful use of wirework in silver. The loop handles "in their elegance...were both construction and ornament, beauty and use." The earliest related porringers date from 1900. See Alan Crawford, C.R. Ashbee: Architect, Designer, and Romantic Socialist (Yale University Press, 1985), figs. 167, 168, 169; p. 327.
Alan Crawford describes this porringer design as the most "characteristic and successful" application of Ashbee's graceful use of wirework in silver. The loop handles "in their elegance...were both construction and ornament, beauty and use." The earliest related porringers date from 1900. See Alan Crawford, C.R. Ashbee: Architect, Designer, and Romantic Socialist (Yale University Press, 1985), figs. 167, 168, 169; p. 327.