By The Guild of Handicraft Limited

By The Guild of Handicraft Limited, an Edwardian two-handled silver and enamel bowl and cover, London 1906, the circular bowl with elongated bifurcated wirework scroll handles terminating in foliate motifs, spot-hammered decoration, the pull-off cover with blue enamel decoration, rope work border and unmarked finial with a mother-or-pearl button, width handle to handle 25.3cm, height 10cm, approx. total weight 10oz. For similar examples see: C. R. Ashbee's English Silver Work, Alan Crawford and Shirley Bury Edition, B. Weinreb 1974, plate 17, and Ian Crawford, C. R. Ashbee, Yale University Press, 1985, pages 334 and 335.