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Title
- Butter Dish
Collection
Production
- design: Charles Robert Ashbee
- manufacturer: Guild of Handicraft, London, about 1900
Period | Style | School
Subject
Measurements
- length: 19.3 cm
- height: 6 cm
- diameter: 11.1 cm
Inventory number
- GO 1111
Acquisition
- purchase, 1900
Department
- Metal Collection and Wiener Werkstätte Archive
Inscriptions
- hallmark: Beschauzeichen, Jahresbuchstabe, ' CRA' in Schild
Description
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This butter dish was made by the Guild of Handicraft after a design by the English architect and art theorist Charles Robert Ashbee. Using an old dish originally made of wood as his model, Ashbee had his version done in silver—and included in it an allusion to the riveted metal band that reinforced the original dish’s wooden edge. With the Guild, established in 1888, Ashbee sought to ameliorate social problems by creating jobs, but he also wanted to effect a renewal of the trades and artisanship in the spirit of the Arts and Crafts movement. These ideas also underpinned the statutes of the Wiener Werkstätte, the founders
of which saw in them a counter-model to mass-produced art industry wares. Other Guild of Handicraft characteristics that they adopted included visibly hammered silver and the use of gemstones as colorful accents in many of their metal designs.
(Schmuttermeier, Elisabeth)
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bowl / basin / cup, Butter Dish, Charles Robert Ashbee, MAK Inv.nr. GO 1111
Last update
- 26.09.2024
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