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In the world of arts and craft silver items don’t get much rarer than this. For sale is this complete John Paul Cooper silver rose or flower bowl, with both lid and bowl fully hallmarked for JPC, London 1913. I have never seen a rose or flower bowl by Cooper.
The bowl is engraved with stylized leaf pattern. The lid is similarly designed with six pointed flowers in the form of a star with thorny stems.
Cooper exhibited a rose bowl at the 1912 Arts Crafts Exhibition Society. No image exists of that piece but possibly it is this bowl, having been assayed after the exhibition.
The bowl also carries tiny French import marks. In 1914 Cooper was one of the major contributors to an exhibition at the Louvre’s Pavillon de Marsan titled “Arts décoratifs de Grande-Bretagne et d’Irlande”. I think it likely this bowl was exhibited at that exhibition and it may well have been exhibit 936 (a small rose bowl)- see images
Condition is excellent and original. The bowl is a good gauge of silver.
Maker: John Paul Cooper
Designer: John Paul Cooper
Date : 1913
Marks: JPC, London, “s” (Lid and bowl)
Material: Sterling silver
Condition: Excellent
Size: 14.5 cm max diameter, 7.5 cm high
Weight :391 grams. 13.8 oz
For more information see “John Paul Cooper. Designer and craftsman of the arts and crafts movement” by Natasha Kuzmanovic. Also see the Victoria & Albert Museum and Leicester Museum which hold various works by Cooper, who came from Leicester.
http://gimson.leicester.gov.uk/leicester-designers/john-paul-cooper/
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