The British Gilded Age 1850 - 1914: Masterpiece London 2019
Past exhibition
Charles Robert Ashbee
Milk jug, 1905
Silver, parcel-gilt, ivory, amethyst
Manufactured by the Guild of Handicraft, Chipping Campden, UK
Manufactured by the Guild of Handicraft, Chipping Campden, UK
h. 7 in. (18 cm) - w. 5 1/3 in. (13,5 cm)
Mark of the Guild of Handicraft, date letter‘k’ for 1905, lion passant and leopard's head
Unique piece
Unique piece
Further images
COLLECTION OF MUSÉE D'ORSAY, PARIS
COLLECTION OF MUSÉE D'ORSAY, PARIS
Provenance
Collection of Jan and Carole Van Den Bosch, London, ca. 1980’s - The Seawolf Collection, UK, until 2011Exhibitions
'A Personal Touch : The Seawolf Collection, late 19th and early 20th century Silver’, at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, from 28th February - 20th April 2003, the Design Museum, Ghent, Belgium, from 15th June to 15th September 2003, the Museet PA Koldinghus, Kolding, Denmark, from 21th February to 30th May 2004 and the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany, Autumn 2004. The piece was then exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, in 2004, and finally at the Court Barn Museum, Chipping Campden, UK, in 2011.Literature
Charlotte Gere and Michael Whiteway, Nineteenth-Century Design, from Pugin to Mackintosh, 1993, page 256, plate 323 - ‘A Personal Touch : The Seawolf Collection, late 19th and early 20th century silver’, Rotterdam, 2003, pages 29 and 67.Join our mailing list
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