A Charles Ashbee for the Guild of Handicraft gem set pepper

For sale is this is fantastic small silver pepper designed by Charles Ashbee for the Guild of Handicraft.  The pepper  is set with green stones which I believe to be chrysoprase.  The pepper is fully hallmarked to base and lid and appears in Ashbee’s Modern English Silver Work, plate, 38. It can also be seen in a photograph of a collection of Ashbee silver published in The Artist, (Vol 33, Jan 1902, Page 17) – see images.

Condition is excellent.

See item A597 for an unmarked set of four, including a pair of peppers near identical to this one.

This pepper featured in my recent selling Exhibition in October and associated catalogue of the Guild’s silver

Price: £1,950

Maker: Guild of Handicraft Limited

Designer: Charles Ashbee

Date: 1901

Marks: GofH Ltd, London, f

Material: Sterling silver

Condition: Excellent

Size: 6.5 cm high, 3.3 cm max diameter

Weight: 0.8 oz, 25 grams