Charles Robert Ashbee
Pair of Jam or Butter Dishes

CultureEnglish
Titles
  • Pair of Jam or Butter Dishes
DateDesigned c. 1900, made 1905
Made inLondon, England
MediumSterling silver and carnelian
DimensionsEach: 2 × 7 1/8 × 4 1/4 in. (5.1 × 18.1 × 10.8 cm)
Credit LineMargo Grant Walsh Twentieth Century Silver and Metalwork Collection, gift of Margo Grant Walsh
Object number2014.13.1,.2
Non exposé

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Provenance[Van Den Bosch, London]; Margo Grant Walsh; given to MFAH, 2014.
Exhibition HistoryPortland Art Museum, 2002.

“Collecting by Design: Silver and Metalwork of the Twentieth Century,” San Francisco Airport Museums, February 5–August 5, 2007.

“Designed by Architects: Metalwork from the Margo Grant Walsh Collection,” Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, Oregon, September 23, 2008–January 25, 2009.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
G of H Ltd – Guild of Handicraft Ltd. hallmark framed by a rectangle (very worn and illegible on one of the bowls)
Lion Passant – framed by a square with three lobes on top and bottom. The mark for the sterling standard of purity in England.
Leopard's head – framed by a shield shape with three-lobed top (mark for London)
Small Roman k framed by a square with canted corners (date letter for 1905)

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