By Charles Ashbee

By Charles Ashbee, The Guild of Handicraft Limited, a late-Victorian silver gem-set beaker, London 1900, tapering circular form, spot hammered decoration, beaded girdle, gilded interior, on a raised pierced foliate foot, set with seven garnet cabouchons within beaded borders, the underside inscribed, ' IRENE 1901, FROM CECILIA DOWNE' height 12cm, approx. weight 5oz. ** For a drawing of a very similar silver beaker see Modern English Silver work, an Essay by C.R.Ashbee, 1909, Alan Crawford and Shirley Bury Edition 1974, plate 8.