Price: £1,950

For sale is this very good, large, William Hutton & Sons silver and enamel square photo frame, the design attributed to Kate Allen.

The frame is in very good condition with original unrestored enamels in excellent antique condition.  The enamels are a good classic blue green colour, typical for Hutton.  The back of the frame may not be original  – I believe it would have been green silk, not oak, as for this frame.  Hallmarks and registration number are still crisp and the frame has not been over polished, still retaining its original patina with the finer hammering still visible.

Kate Allen was Hutton’s  other leading designer c 1898-1904, who worked alongside the better known Kate Harris, based at Hutton’s  London studio.  Like Harris, Allen her own distinctive arts and crafts style.

See A1393 for a near identical example also for sale.

Maker:  William Hutton & Sons

Designer:  Kate Allen (attrib)

Date: 1903

Marks: WHSs Ltd, London, h

Material: Sterling silver, enamel

Condition: Excellent. See description

Size: 20 cm square (max width/height)

Weight: NM