Price range: Reserved

For sale is this outstanding two handled bowl with enamelled lid, by Charles Ashbee for the Guild of Handicraft, with original spoon.  The finial of both the bowl’s lid and spoon are set with a blister pearl.  The enamel to the lid is original classic Guild of Handicraft blue and in perfect condition.  The bowl retains its original powel glass liner.  The whole piece is a remarkable survivor.

Alan Crawford describes this porringer design as the most “characteristic and successful” application of Ashbee’s graceful use of wirework in silver.

The bowl is marked for London 1902, the lid and spoon for 1903.  For a near identical example held by the Victorian and Albert Museum see this link

Maker:  Guild of Handicraft
Designer: Charles Ashbee
Date : 1902/3
Marks: GofH Ltd, London,  “g/h”
Material: Sterling silver, enamel, blister pearl
Condition: Excellent and original
Size: 27 cm wide, 8.75 cm high, bowl diameter 10.0 cm, spoon 15.25cm
Weight : 13.3 oz, 376 grams (includes enamelled copper inset to lid, excludes glass and spoon)