| EDWARD SPENCER
(1872-1938) for ARTIFICERS’ GUILD
A
rare pair of Arts & Crafts, silver and glass decanters.
One decanter stopper
with a vine leaf finial and golden vine leaf motifs for wine, the
other with a shell
finial and golden shell motifs for
water. The heavy Powell glass with a random bubble decoration.
English. Circa 1905. Unmarked. Size: Height 28 cm.
Lit.: Art Nouveau and Art Deco Silver. Annelies Krekel-Aalberse.
The Studio 1913. Volume 58 pages 21- 24. See also
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery. Exhibit 1972M120.
An Edward Spencer, James Powell & Sons decanter. |
GILBERT LEIGH MARKS
(1861-1905)
A large silver dish, repoussé decorated
in high relief with the exotic leaves and blossoms of the WARATAH
bush which is the New South Wales state emblem.
Size: Length 44 cm.
Signed ‘Gilbert Marks
1900’. Marked ‘G M’. Hallmark for London 1900.
Lit.: Simplicity or
Splendor. Cheltenham Museum catalogue 1999. |
OMAR
RAMSDEN (1873-1939) & ALWYN CARR (1872-1940)
A pair of Arts & Crafts hammered silver candlesticks with flame
and ropetwist decoration. The circular drip pans with four supports.
Size: Height 18 cm. Diameter base 11.7 cm .
Diameter of drip pan 8.5 cm.
Marked for Ramsden & Carr. Engraved, ‘Omar Ramsden et Alwyn
Carr me fecurunt.’ Hallmarks for London
1914. |
| OMAR
RAMSDEN (1873-1939) & ALWYN CARR (1872-1940)
A lightly hammered, cylindrical silver box, decorated with flowering
branches.
The lid with a final set mother-of-pearl.
Size: Diameter of lid 10.4 cm. base
10.4 cm. Height approximately 9 cm.
Marked for Ramsden & Carr. Hallmarks for London 1907.
Sold
|
OMAR
RAMSDEN (1873-1939)
A pair of Arts & Crafts silver plated candlesticks on hexagonal
bases with rope work borders. The circular drip pans with six supports
and grapevine detail with
four cabochon garnets to the central knops.
Size: Height 20.2 cm. Base across 12.7
cm. Unmarked. Circa 1920.
Lit.: Omar Ramsden exhibition catalogue, Birmingham Museum,
1993. Sold
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EDWARD SPENCER (1872-1938)
ARTIFICERS’ GUILD(1901-1942)
A pair of Arts & Crafts,
silver mounted glass decanters.
One vine leaf stopper set amethysts, one set garnets. Heights
28 cm. 26 cm. The heavy glass with ripple decoration.
Marks for Artificers’ Guild and London 1924. One unmarked.
Lit.: The Studio 1913. Vol. 58 pages 21- 24.
See also B’ham Museums & Art Gallery. Ex. 1972M120.
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BIRMINGHAM GUILD OF
HANDICRAFTS Ltd. (Established 1895)
A pair of silver dishes with
original green glass liners.
Size: Diameter 14 cm.
Maker's marks. Hallmarks for Birmingham 1904.
Lit.: The Silversmiths of Birmingham. Editor Kenneth Crisp
Jones. |
HENRY
WILSON (1864-1934)
An exceptional, large, Arts & Crafts silver frame,
set with lapis stones to the doors and in tree-like settings.
The frame is surmounted by a a silver figure, the personification
of Charity as a woman with two children, with the word ‘CARITAS’
beneath.
Size: Height 43
cm.Width of base, including feet, 33 cm. Depth 21 cm. Circa 1900.
Lit.: Pre-Raphaelite to Arts & Crafts Jewellery. Charlotte Gere
& Geoffrey Munn 1996. Arts & Crafts in Britain & America.
Isabelle Anscombe & Charlotte Gere. 1978.
See also Enamels/Metal page for Henry Wilson
items.
|
BIRMINGHAM GUILD OF
HANDICRAFTS Ltd. (Established 1895)
A silver box with entwined ‘Celtic frieze’.
Engraved with a presentation inscription of historical interest ‘Robert
Catterson Smith from William Kenrick. Nov. 1914’.
Marked for B'ham Guild of Handicraft. Hallmarks for B’ham 1902.
Size: Length 14 cm. Width 9 cm. Height 7 cm.
Lit.: The Silversmiths of Birmingham. Editor Kenneth Crisp
Jones |
JOHNSON WAKER &
TOLHURST
A silver mounted glass tankard set with four enamel roundels to the
lid and four enamel roundels to the centre band.
Size: Height 25.5 cm. Base diameter 11cm. Lid
diameter 9.5 cm.
Marked for Johnson Walker & Tolhurst, 172, New Bond Street.
Hallmarks for London 1901.
|
A.
E. JONES (1879-1954)
An Arts & Crafts hammered silver box. The lid decorated with an
abbreviated quotation from Robert Herrick’s English poem of
1648, ‘Gather ye roses while ye may old time
is still a-flying’.
Maker’s mark and hallmarks for Birmingham 1906.
Size: Length across lid 11.5 cm. Width across lid 7.cm cm. Height
3.2 cm. |
A.
E. JONES (1879-1954)
An Arts & Crafts hammered silver tea caddy set with oval chrysoprase
stones.
Size: Height 11.5 cm. Diameter of lid 7.5 cm.
Mid diameter approximately 8 cm.
Maker’s marks and hallmarks for B’ham 1905.
Lit.: The Silversmiths of Birmingham. Editor Kenneth Crisp
Jones. Sold
|
HAROLD
STABLER (1872-1945) for ADIE BROTHERS
A silver candelabrum and a pair of silver candlesticks designed by
Harold Stabler |
| The candlesticks
signed ‘Harold Stabler’and marked for Adie Brothers.
Hallmarked for B’ham 1934.
Size: Approx. height of candlesticks
10.6 cm.
The candelabrum with retailer’s
mark for Mappin & Webb & B’ham 1936. Size: Approx.
ht. 29.5 cm. Base dia. 13.5 cm.
|
|
JOHN
PAUL COOPER (1869-1933)
A shagreen box with silver mounts. Marked with JPC monogram.
Size: Length 15.3 cm. Width 8.4 cm. Height 5.6
cm. English. Circa 1918.
Lit.: John Paul Cooper. N. Natasha Kuzmanović.
|
| A.
E. JONES (1879-1954)
An Arts & Crafts, hammered silver bowl, supported on four legs,
decorated
with a frieze border of four roses and leaves. Ideal for fruit or
flower display.
Marked for A. E. Jones. Hallmarks
for B’ham 1908.
Size: Height. 11 cm. Diameter 14.5 cm. |
A.
E. JONES (1879-1954)
An Arts & Crafts, hammered silver preserve pot and matching
spoon with original glass liner. The canister with silver floral
and wirework decorations.
Maker’s mark. Hallmarks on both canister and spoon for Birmingham
1919.
Size: Approx. height 13.3 cm. Dia. of base 8.6 cm. Length of spoon
13.3 cm. Sold
|
| A.
E. JONES (1879-1954)
An Arts & Crafts, hammered silver bowl, supported on four legs,
decorated with .
a frieze border of four roses and thorny branches. Ideal
for fruit or flower display.
Marked for A. E. Jones. Hallmarks for B’ham 1912.
Size: Ht. 13.2 cm. Dia.17.3 cm.
(This bowl is larger than the bowl, number15, illustrated
above.) |
EVALD NIELSEN
(1879-1958)
A silver dinner bell. The marine tusk handle
formed as a boy on the back of a dolphin. The bell with a hammered
finish and a wave design.
Marked inside bell ‘Evald Nielsen, 830 S, ANNO 1926’.
Sold
The bell rim marked ‘EN S 830’
Size: Height 16.4 cm. Dia.
at base of bell 9.1 cm.
|
ALFRED
POLLAK (Flourished 1878-1910)
A Jugendstil silver tea caddy with a gilded interior. Sold
Stamped ‘A P’.
Marked ‘800’ and with Austrian marks.
Austria. Circa 1904. Sold
Size: L.13 cm. W. 10 cm. Ht. 10.5 cm. Lit.: SILVER A. Krekel-Aalberse.
Illus. page 75
An identical tea caddy in an advert for Connell printed in The
Studio, September 1904.
|
HENRY GEORGE MURPHY
(1884-1939)
A rare set of silver pearl mounted cocktail sticks in the original
fitted case.
Marked for H. G. Murphy and with
the Falcon mark. Hallmarks London 1930.
Size: Length 7.7 cm. Lit.: The Jewellery and
Silver of H. G. Murphy. Paul Atterbury
and John Benjamin. This set is illustrated on page 107. Sold
|
HOLLAND,
ALDWINCKLE & SLATER. Attributed to LATINO MOVIO.
A silver bowl decorated with apple blossom and fruits.
Size : Diameter at centre 19 cm. Height
12.5 cm. Hallmarks for London 1902.
Marked for Holland, Aldwinckle & Slater.
Latino Movio executed silver in a style similar to that of Gilbert
Marks.
Lit.: Art Nouveau and Art Deco Silver. Annelies Krekel-Aalberse.
Sold |
HAROLD
STABLER (1872-1945) for ADIE BROTHERS
A set of three Art Deco silver Candelabra
designed by Harold Stabler.
Hallmarked for Birmingham
1936. |
The three branch candelabra marked for
Adie Brothers.
The five branch candelabrum marked
‘WHM’.
Size: Height 30 cm.
Width of three branch candelabra 20.5 cm. Sold
|
|
HENRY WILSON (1864-1934)
A copper box with silver decoration. The applied
emblematic rondels depicting creatures, including a snake, fox and
an owl.
English. Circa 1900. Size: Width 12 cm. Height 11.5 cm. Depth 9.5
cm.
Lit.: Arts & Crafts in Britain & America. Isabelle
Anscombe & Charlotte Gere.
The Jewellery and Silver of H. G. Murphy. Atterbury and Benjamin.
Sold
|
A.
E. JONES (1879-1954)
An Arts & Crafts,
hammered silver inkwell with a domed, hinged lid above a
tapering body with six studs to a base with six ball feet.
New interior glass liner.
Maker’s mark. Hallmarks for
B’ham 1911. Base diameter 15 cm. Height 9 cm.
Lit.: The Silversmiths of Birmingham. Editor Kenneth Crisp
Jones. |
| A. E. JONES (1879-1954)
An Arts & Crafts, hammered silver, four piece tea set.
|
| Marked
for A. E. Jones. Hallmarks for B’ham 1904/1905.
Hot water jug marked for G. L. Connell. Hallmarks for B’ham
1910. Size of teapot across handle 25 cm. Ht. 13.5 cm. Ht. of jug
17 cm. Illus. page 183 The Silversmiths of Birmingham
|
|
| A. E. JONES (1879-1954)
RUSKIN POTTERY (1898-1935)
A silver, Arts & Crafts, centrepiece bowl.
The cylindrical foot set with four Ruskin ceramic plaques. The
base supported on an ebonised wooden stand.
Marked for A. E. Jones. Hallmarks for B’ham 1903.
Size: Bowl ht. 10.2 cm. Dia. top 15.2 cm. Stand ht. 7.5 cm. Dia.
19 cm. Sold
|
ELKINGTON &
Co.
An impressive, heavy silver, Art Nouveau tea
and coffee set with kettle and stand,
decorated with stylised flowers and wavy bands.
The stand with burner.
Maker’s mark. Hallmarks
for B’ham 1901. Kettle B’ham 1903. Size: Total height
of kettle on stand 40 cm. Dia. of base 14 cm. Ht. of teapot 16 cm.
Dia. of base 12.7 cm. Sold
|
SIBYL
DUNLOP (1889-1968)
An Arts & Crafts hammered silver napkin ring set
with three moonstones
of
varying sizes.
Marked for Sibyl Dunlop. Hallmarks for London 1963.
Size:
Diameter 4.7 cm. Height 3.1 cm. |
| OMAR
RAMSDEN (1873-1939) |
| A pair of Arts & Crafts
hammered silver dishes on four ball feet. Original fitted case.
Mark for Omar Ramsden and
‘Omar Ramsden Me Fecit’. Size:
Across handles 11 cm. Across dish 7.6 cm.
Height to handle 5 cm. Width 4.6 cm. London 1934.
Sold |
|
ELKINGTON & Co.
An Art Nouveau, silver, four piece tea set decorated
with bands of stylized
flowers and foliage.
Maker’s mark. Hallmarks for B’ham 1903.
Ht. of teapot 15.5 cm. Dia. of base 11.3 cm. Ht. of waterpot
19 cm. Dia. of base 9 cm.
Ht. of sugar 10.5 cm. Dia. of base 9 cm. Ht. of cream jug 10.5 cm.
Dia. of base 6.5 cm. |
A. E. JONES (1879-
1954)
A pair of hammered sliver pepperettes perched on three feet.
Maker’s mark and hallmarks for Birmingham
1915.
Size: Approximate height 6 cm. Diameter at rim 4 cm.
Lit.: The Silversmiths of Birmingham. Editor Kenneth Crisp Jones.
Sold
|
GRANN og LAGLYE
A set of six silver teaspoons. Each terminal formed as a flower
bud set with one of the following cabochon stones; amethyst, light
green paste, moonstone, garnet, coral, lapis. The
bowl of the spoon hammered to the reverse.
Marks for Grann og Laglye and Dansk Arbejde,
C. F. Heise assay master’s mark and Danish assay marks for
1927-28. Unknown‘AH’ mark.
Size: Approx. length of spoons 11.5 cm. Original
case.
|
ARTIFICERS’
GUILD attributed to EDWARD SPENCER (1872-1938)
An Arts & Crafts, hatpin or pin cushion. The
silver ring frame mounted with
plaques of snakes swallowing their own tails, symbols of eternity,
and plaques of eagles and florets. The
borders with applied wirework.
Original wooden base.
Mark for Artificers’ Guild and London 1928. Size: Dia.12.8 cm.
Ring ht. 3.5 cm. Sold |
A.
E. JONES (1879-1954)
A pair of Arts & Crafts hammered silver sugar casters.
Marked for Payne & Son. Hallmarks for Birmingham 1913.
Size: Height 11.5 cm. Diameter
of base 4.2 cm. Sold
|
ARTIFICERS’
GUILD (1901-1942)
An Arts &
Crafts shagreen case with silver mounts.
Mark for Artificers’ Guild. Hallmarks
for London 1922.
Size: Width 7 cm. Length 19.5 cm.
Lit.: Art Nouveau and Art Deco Silver. Annelies Krekel-Aalberse.
Sold
|
A. E. JONES (1879-1954)
A large Arts & Crafts, hammered silver centrepiece, decorated
with floral rondels and with leaf decorations to the six points of
the hexagonal base.
Maker's mark and hallmarks for
Birmingham 1929.
Size: Approx.
Diameter of bowl 23 cm. Across base 15 cm. Height 24.5 cm.
Lit.: The Silversmiths of Birmingham. Editor Kenneth
Crisp Jones. |
| KATE
HARRIS for HUTTON & SONS
A silver Arts & Crafts jewellery box with organic, leaf form
decorations to corners and lid. The interior velvet lined.
Maker’s mark. Hallmarks for London 1904.
Size: L. 13 cm. W. 10 cm. Ht.
6.5 cm.
Lit.: A Marriage of Art and Commerce. Stephen Pudney. Silver
Society Journal.Sold
|
GEORG
ADAM SCHEIDT
A small Art Nouveau silver box.
Marked for Georg Adam Scheidt. Austrian
silver mark. Circa 1900.
Size: 5 cm. x 5 cm. Height 1.5 cm.
Sold
|
A.
E. JONES (1879- 1954)
An Arts & Crafts, hammered silver gravy or sauceboat.
Mark for A. E. Jones. Hallmarks for B’ham
1924. Size: Length 17 cm. Height 10 cm.
Lit. : The Silversmiths of Birmingham. Kenneth Crisp
Jones.
A pair also available marked for A. E. Jones and dated B’ham
1924.
|
A.
E. JONES (1879-1954)
An Arts & Crafts, hammered silver preserve pot with glass liner
and spoon.
The canister decorated with silver floral and
wirework decorations.
Marks: Canister marked for Payne & Son. Hallmarks for B’ham
1910. Spoon marked ‘AEJ’. Hallmarks for B’ham 1923.
Height approx. 12.5 cm. Sold
|
ARTIFICERS’
GUILD (1901-1942)
A set of six Arts & Crafts silver
teaspoons with wirework decoration and shell terminals.
Unmarked. Circa 1908.
Size: Approx. length of spoons 9.4 cm. Length of bowl of spoon 2.4
cm. Width 2 cm.
The original fitted case marked to the silk, ‘THE ARTIFICERS'
GUILD LTD.
9 MADDOX STREET LONDON W ’.
Sold
|
ARTIFICERS’
GUILD (1901-1942)
A set of twelve Arts & Crafts silver
teaspoons with circular terminals depicting
Viking ships in full sail.
Marked for Artificers' Guild Ltd. Hallmarks for London 1912.
Size:
Approx length of spoons 11.8 cm.
The original fitted case marked to the silk, ‘THE ARTIFICERS'
GUILD LTD.
4 CONDUIT STREET LONDON W ’. |
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