By George Hart for The Guild of Handicraft

By George Hart for The Guild of Handicraft, a three-piece silver Arts and Crafts tea set,

London 1938, possibly from a design by John Sidney Reeve,

tapering circular form, spot-hammered decoration, with stylised geometric motifs, scroll handles, on a raised circular base, length handle to spout 26cm, approx. weight 36oz. (3)

John Sidney Reeve (1875-1943) joined the workshops of The Guild of Handicraft in Chipping Campden in 1902, and two years later he took up a teaching position at Leicester School of Art. He also went on to design at the Leicester firm Dryad. When he retired in 1934, he moved back to Chipping Campden, and still went in to work in the Hart's workshop in Sheep Street.