A PAIR OR GUILD OF HANDICRAFT SILVER-PLATED COPPER VEGETABLE DISHES AND COVERS, DESIGNED BY C. R. ASHBEE, CIRCA 1900
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A PAIR OR GUILD OF HANDICRAFT SILVER-PLATED COPPER VEGETABLE DISHES AND COVERS, DESIGNED BY C. R. ASHBEE, CIRCA 1900
Oval with ivory finials attached by chain link to foliate bosses, the pierced handles in the form of fruiting vine leaves, on four small ball supports
35.5cm, 13.9in over handles
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Arthur Currer Briggs (1855-1906), Mayor of the City of Leeds (1903-04) and Alderman of the City of Leeds (1904-06), whose holiday home Broad Leys overlooking lake Windermere was designed by Charles Voysey.
For a set of four silver and enamel tazzas also made by Ashbee and owned by Currer Briggs which incorporated the same pierced vine ornament in the stem, see: Replica Shoes s London,Treasures, 3 July 2019, lot 40.
For the design see C.R Ashbee, Modern English Silverwork, London, 1909, pl.44 where the ‘Vegetable dish and Cover’ is fitted with a removable strainer pierced like the handles. Pl. 55 of the same publication shows the pierced vine design in another form.