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Loop-handled dish

Ref: 1605
  • Designer / Maker

    The design perhaps by Arthur Tuckey, or C.R. Ashbee (1863-1942)

    Manufactured by the Guild of Handicraft (1888-1907)

  • Detail

    Silver, mounted with a chrysoprase

    Length: 18 cm

    English (London), 1902/03

  • Marked

    Hallmarks for Guild of Handicraft, London, 1902/03 (see right)

  • Collection

    Private collection

  • Notes

    As Alan Crawford notes in C.R. Ashbee: Architect, Designer & Romantic Socialist (New Haven & London, 1985), so central is this ubiquitous design to Ashbee’s reputation that ‘it seems impertinent to attribute [it] to anyone else.’ (p. 337).  But such evidence that survives points to Arthur Tuckey, under whose name this pattern was exhibited at the Arts & Crafts Exibition Society exhibition in 1903.

    Examples of the single ‘loop-handled dish’ exist in several public collections, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.