A small Keswick School of Industrial Arts silver bowl

Price: £625

A  small early silver (salt) bowl by the Keswick School of Industrial Arts, repousse decorated with three scrolling feet. A very unuusal design, this piece is not the finest quality work by the KSIA but captures their arts and craft spirit perfectly.  Fully assayed for Birmingham 1900, with further KSIA mark to base.   In very good condition.

See The Loving Eye & Skilful Hand: The Keswick Schoool of Industrial Arts by Ian Bruce for more information   The Keswick School of Industrial  Arts (KSIA) was founded in 1884 by the Reverend Hardwicke Rawnsley  (who went on to found the National Trust). The School was one of the earliest ventures of its type as part of the arts and crafts movement and one of the leading proponents of the benefits of a rural location, which in time motivated Ashbee’s Guild of Handicraft’s move from London’s East End to the Cotswolds.  The KSIA was not only one of the first of the industrial art schools or guilds, it was also, to its enduring credit,  the longest established, finally closing in 1984.

Maker:  Keswick School of Industrial Arts

Designer:  Unknown

Date: 1900

Marks: KSIA, Birimingham “a”

Material: Sterling silver

Condition: Very good

Size: 7.0 cm diameter excluding feet, 3.5 cm height

Weight: 2.9 oz, 82 grams