Photograph Frame Liberty CYMRIC London Arts & Crafts Sterling Silver Ruskin 1904
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Photograph Frame Liberty CYMRIC London Arts & Crafts Sterling Silver Ruskin 1904:
$1542.15
Photo frame made for Liberty of London in 1904
Sterling Silver 1904
Made in Birmingham, 1904, byLiberty & Co
An interesting Arts & Crafts Silver Photo frame made by Liberty & Co in 1904 Birmingham. Of plain rectangular form with corners set four Ruskins turquoise and jade pottery cabochons. These featuring the rare, difficult and very distinctive fissured glaze effect. A delight! With later wooden back.
Liberty & Co
In 1885, 142–144 Regent Street was acquired and housed the ever-increasing demand for carpets and furniture. The basement was named the Eastern Bazaar, and was the vending place for what was described as \"decorative furnishing objects\". He named the property Chesham House after the place in which he grew up. The store became the most fashionable place to shop in London and Liberty fabrics were used for both clothing and furnishings. Some of its clientele was exotic, and included famousPre-Raphaeliteartists.
In 1884 Liberty introduced the costume department into the Regent Street store, directed byEdward William Godwin(1833–86). Godwin was a distinguished architect. He was a founding member of theCostume Societyin 1882. He and Arthur Liberty created in-house apparel to challenge the fashions ofParis.
During the 1890s Arthur Lasenby Liberty built strong relationships with many English designers. Many of these designers, includingArchibald Knox, practised the artistic styles known asArts and CraftsandArt Nouveau, and Liberty helped develop Art Nouveau through his encouragement of such designers. The company became associated with this new style, to the extent that inItaly, Art Nouveau became known as theStile Liberty, after the London shop.
The store became one of the most prestigious in London.
TheRuskin Potterywas an English pottery studio founded in 1898 byEdward R. Taylor, the first Principal of both theLincoln School of Art[1]and theBirmingham School of Art, to be run by his son,William Howson Taylor, formerly a student there. It was named after the artist, writer and social thinkerJohn Ruskin, as the Taylors agreed with, and followed the tenets of Ruskin. The pottery was situated at 173-174 Oldbury RoadSmethwick,Sandwell,West Midlands.
The pottery produced was notable for the innovative glazes used on a range of brightly coloured pots, vases, buttons, bowls, tea services and jewellery. The glazes devised byWilliam Howson Taylorincluded misty soufflé glazes, ice crystal effect glazes - \'crystalline\', lustre glazes resembling metallic finishes, and the most highly regarded of all, “sang de boeuf” and Flambe glazes which produced a blood red effect. The \'sang de boeuf\' glazes were created using reduction of copper and iron oxides at high temperature. This was a difficult technique, first developed in China in the 13th century and reinvented by several art potters in Europe in the late 19th century. William Howson Taylor was one of the principal exponents of \'high fired\' techniques, producing a range of colours and unique \'fissured\' glaze effects.
Having exhibited at home and at international fine art exhibitions, the award of a \"grand prize\" in 1904 at theSt Louis International Exhibition, gave them the recognition they needed. Further awards were gained at other international exhibitions, includingMilan 1906;Christchurch, New Zealand, 1907;London 1908;Brussels 1910;Turin 1911;Ghent 1913.
When the studio closed in 1935 the formulae for the glazes and all the pottery documentation were deliberately destroyed, so that the unique Ruskin products could never be replicated.
A large collection of Ruskin Pottery is on public display atWednesbury Museum and Art Gallery,Wednesbury, England. The collection is owned by Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council and is managed by Sandwell Museum Service.
Condition The Frame: VeryGood. slight surface scratches Lacks Passant
Width: Eight inches 20.7cm
Height: Ten inches 25.6cm
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Photograph Frame Liberty CYMRIC London Arts & Crafts Sterling Silver Ruskin 1904:
$1542.15