Fine Arts and Crafts - 22nd June 2016

Lot 276

A Guild of Handicrafts electroplated metal muffin dish and cover designed by Charles Robert Ashbee

Estimate £1,500 - £2,000 | Hammer £2600

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Description

A Guild of Handicrafts electroplated metal muffin dish and cover designed by Charles Robert Ashbee, the shallow base with broad flaring rim, supporting hammered conical dome cover with silver wirework finial set with moonstone, Stamped Guild of Handicrafts Ltd mark to cover and base 23cm, diam.

Literature

Arts and Crafts Metalwork, Blackwell exhibition 2003, page 19 catalogue number 62 for a comparable muffin dish.