Description
See Alan Crawford, “C.R. Ashbee”, Yale University Press
For more information on the exhibition see:
http://courtbarn.org.uk/whats-on/next-exhibition/cockneys-in-arcadia-c-r-ashbee-in-chipping-campden
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Small silver box with chrysoprase and moonstones
This box was on loan to the “Cockneys in Arcadia; C R Ashbee in Chipping Campden” Exhibition at Court Barn Museum 7th April to 9th July.
This major exhibition celebrating a decade of Court Barn is curated by experts Alan Crawford and Mary Greensted and is the first to showcase C R Ashbee’s Campden period and will include the full range of Ashbee’s work during that time, as a designer of furniture, metalwork, silver, jewellery and printed books.
A Guild Handicraft silver box, possibly a snuff box, decorated with Chrysoprase and moonstones. London 1904. The chrysoprase are a particularly vibrant colour and the repousse work on the lid very elegant.
Price: Sold
Maker: Guild of Handicraft
Designer: Unknown, possibly Charles Robert Ashbee
Date : 1904
Marks: G of H Ltd, London, date letter “i”, to body and lid
Material: Sterling silver, moonstone, chrysoprase
Condition: Excellent.
Size: 10cm long, 4cm wide, 5cm tall
Weight : 141 grams