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Lot 326
VICTORIAN GILT METAL MANTLE CLOCK with an eight day French movement, the circular enamel dial marked 'R.Stewart' set in a shaped case raised on scroll supports and decorated with floral garlands and weapons surmounted by a nobleman on a horse, set on a naturalistic base with his armour scattered, on a shaped velvet covered plinth, standing on a marble and ebonised stand, with a glass dome, 51cm high excluding stand and dome
Lot 161
Attributed to the Guild of Handicraft, a copper and electroplate mantle clock, circa 1895, the tapering copper case with applied electroplate dial 27½ x 18 x 10cm (11 x 7 x 4in) Purchased from Liberty by the vendor in 2003 Charles Robert Ashbee founded the Guild and School of Handicraft in 1888. Based on the model of the medieval workshop, the Guild operated as a co-operative. Style and aesthetics followed the Art and Crafts movement and the Guild produced leather, furniture, metalwork, jewellery and books, with much of the work based on Ashbee's designs. Revival of traditional techniques, education of working people and encouraging satisfaction through work are key principles of the Arts and Craft movement and the Guild. In 1902, the Guild (150 people, the Guildsmen and their families) moved from East London to Chipping Campden. Ashbee believed that living a simple, collective life in rural surroundings would add to the health and well-being of the craftsmen and consequently the work they produced. Although the work of the Guild was widely exhibited, increasing financial difficulties from 1905 eventually resulted in the voluntary liquidation of the Guild in 1908.
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