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Founded in the East End of London in 1888, the Guild followed the concept of the medieval workshop and promoted traditional handicraft skills that were passed from master to apprentice.\r\n\r\nAshbee occasionally went outside the Guild for the execution of his designs. For this piece he chose W. Poyser for reasons that remain unclear.","physicalDescription":"Steeple cup and cover.  Silver, gilt interior with enamel decoration and set with six turquoises.\r\n\r\nThe deep bowl with an everted rim, embossed with a frieze of tulips, the petals turned back to reveal a cluster of stamens.  Plain baluster stem with openwork brackets in the form of leaves and fruits;  the stem becomes an inverted bell shape at the base.  Circular stepped and domed base embossed with leaves and flowers similar to those on the body.\r\n\r\nThe stepped and domed cover iscribed round the rim; the embossed decoration is of inverted tulips and leaves.  In the centre, a shaped form supportys a plate with a slightly circular cover, enamelled in turquoise and green, five embossed panels round the base of the fumal, each set with a cabochon turquoise.  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Here, his design is based on English 17th century steeple cups but Ashbee has made a very contemporary and subtle restatement of the original design.\n\r\nAshbee occasionally went outside the Guild for the execution of his designs.  His reasons for selecting  Poyser in this instance remains unclear for he cannot be traced in the Ashbee papers or in the list of Guild workers given in Ashbee's Craftsmanship in Competitive Industry 1908.  The cup and cover was commissioned in 1900 by Harris Heal to commemorate his term of office as Master of the Painters and Stainers Company in 1900.\r\n\r\nKershaw Dinner RF.2007/190","historicalContext":"EDWARDIAN SILVER\r\n\r\nDespite relentless commercial pressures and a conservative public which favoured historicist revivals, innovations did emerge in European silverware in the early years of the 20th century, prior to the First World War.  The cup and cover (1909-10) by Child & Child of Thurloe Place, South Kensington, in a revived, German Renaissance manner illustrates the prevailing mainstream taste for historicism while the Painter and Stainers’ Cup designed by C.R. Ashbee for Harris Heal (1900-01) is a very contemporary and subtle restatement of a 17th century design and epitomises the essence of the British Arts and Crafts movement.  \r\n\r\nBy 1900, Ashbee and his Guild of Handicraft had a achieved a stylistic maturity.  For a while the Guild even showed a modest profit but events were moving swiftly.  In the 1890s the work produced by the Guild struck a fresh and original note.  By the 1900s, Ashbee was to witness others adapting his ideas and extending them further.  The workshops of Henry Wilson, Nelson Dawson and Edward Spencer of the Artificer’s Guild, Omar Ramsden and in Denmark,  Michelsen and Georg Jensen began to produce work that was richer and more self assured than the austere, products of the Guild of Handicraft.  These firms successfully popularised the Arts and Crafts philosophy and occasionally incorporated Art Nouveau tendencies.  The retailer A.L. Liberty of Regent Street with his Cymric range of silver and jewellery was the amongst the most successful and all remained commercially viable long after the demise of the Guild in 1908.\r\n\r\n(Graphic panel:  the Silver Galleries)","briefDescription":"Steeple Cup and Cover, silver and enamel. London hallmarks for 1900-01, mark of W. Poyser, designed by C.R. 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