LOT 306
23rd February 2011
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LOT 306
A Guild of Handicrafts plated muffin dish and cover, circa 1900, designed by Charles Robert Ashbee, the circular hot water warming base with screw stopper, the wide rim with beaded border beneath a conical cover, surmounted with a chrysoprase cabochon finial, height approx 14cm. Provenance: Arthur Currer Briggs (1855-1906), Mayor of the City of Leeds (1903-04) and Alderman of the City of Leeds (1904-06), thence by direct family descent to the present owner. Note: a memorial to Arthur Currer Briggs, designed by Sir William Hamo Thornycroft, was erected in Lawnswood Cemetery, Leeds, in 1908 and is now a Grade II listed structure.
Hammer price: £850
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