AN ARTS AND CRAFTS SILVER DISH AND SPOON, DESIGNED BY CHARLES ROBERT ASHBEE (1863-1942), GUILD OF HANDICRAFT LTD., LONDON, 1901 hammered circular bowl, elongated looping twin-wire handle set at the shoulder with a mother-of-pearl cabochon, the spoon with elongated bowl and openwork terminal of stylised leaves and tendrils centred by another mother-of-pearl cabochon dish 20.3cm long, spoon 14.7cm long, 177gr (5oz 13dwt) all in Provenance: George Samuel Jebb (b.1861), partner in the law firm of Tunnard & Jebb in Boston, Lincolnshire, who married Georgina Martha Tunnard in 1908. Thence by family descent. This model of dish (sometimes called a porringer or a butter dish) is usually found with a chrysoprase cabochon and on a few occasions with an accompanying butter knife: the present example, with its very rare spoon, has always been used in the family for jam. Another example, with chrysoprase cabochon and butter knife, was sold in these rooms, Matthew Barton Ltd., 25 May 2016, lot 416 and another Sotheby's, London, 5 October 2004, lot 23. Also see a version on display in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, room 67, case 16, shelf 1 (Museum No. CIRC.351-1959) and see Alan Crawford, C.R. Ashbee, Architect, Designer and Romantic Socialist, Yale University Press, 1985, p.334, pl.167. Ashbee's related double handled design version of the dish is illustrated in his Modern English Silverwork, London, 1909, p.22.
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Good quality Edwardian mahogany and satinwood crossbanded standing display cabinet with rear gallery and shelves enclosed by pair of astragal glazed doors, flanked by conforming glazed canted angles with shelf below, on spade feet, brass plaque verso for Hewitson, Milner & Theberton Ltd. House Furnishers, Tottenham Court Road, London, 146cm wide x 40cm deep x 149cm high
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