Charles Robert Ashbee
Ladle, 1900
Silver, walrus or sperm whale ivory, chrysoprase
Manufactured by the Guild of Handicraft, Chipping Campden, UK
Manufactured by the Guild of Handicraft, Chipping Campden, UK
l. 17 in. (43 cm)
Signed with artist’s initials ‘CRA’, date letter ‘e’ for 1900, lion passant and leopard’s head.
Further images
COLLECTION OF LEEDS MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES - TEMPLE NEWSAM
COLLECTION OF LEEDS MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES - TEMPLE NEWSAM
Provenance
Collection of Arthur Currer Briggs, Mayor of Leeds (1903-1904) and Alderman of the City of Leeds (1904-1906) - Thence by direct family descent to the previous owner until 2019.
Literature
Charles Robert Ashbee, Modern English Silver work, An Essay By C.R. Ashbee, Together With a Series of Designs By The Author, London, 1909, plate 52 - ‘The New Magpie and Stump, a Successful Experiment in Domestic Architecture’, in The Studio, volume V, 1895, page 69 (for the ladle presumably in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum).Join our mailing list
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