A Guild of Handicrafts copper and enamel box by Arthur Cameron and Charles Robert Ashbee

A Guild of Handicrafts copper and enamel box by Arthur Cameron and Charles Robert Ashbee, the hammered rectangular box on ball feet, the hinged cover inset with enamel panel of a standing rhinoceros by Arthur Cameron, cedar lining, enamel signed AC monogram, paper John Jesse label, 18 x 11cm, 5cm. high

Provenance

Charles & Lavinia Handley-Read

John Jesse

Andrew McIntosh Patrick

Literature

Alan Crawford C.R.Ashbee Architect, Designer & Romantic Socialist, Yale, page 329 plate IX for three comparable silver and enamel boxes illustrated including one by Arthur Cameron. The illustration also shows an enamel by William Mark of St George on Horseback based on an engraving by Durer. This enamel is also after the Rhinoceros woodcut by Durer dated 1515.