Powder Bowl
ca. 1890 (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Rathbone was a major figure in the Arts and Crafts Movement. A member of a well known Liverpool family, he took up metalworking in the late 1890s and had a studio near the Menai Straits. He was associated with Herbert McNair, who taught at the Liverpool Academy and was the brother-in-law of CR Mackintosh. Rathbone came to London in 1905 where he made silver and jewellery as well as teach at the Sir John Cass School of Art.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Silver, embossed and chased, set with a stone |
| Brief description | Silver, no marks, Liverpool, ca.1890, designed and made by Richard Llewellyn Rathbone. |
| Physical description | Silver powder bowl with embossed and chased decoration, set with a chrysoprase. |
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| Style | |
| Marks and inscriptions | No marks |
| Credit line | Given by Miss A. Gould |
| Summary | Rathbone was a major figure in the Arts and Crafts Movement. A member of a well known Liverpool family, he took up metalworking in the late 1890s and had a studio near the Menai Straits. He was associated with Herbert McNair, who taught at the Liverpool Academy and was the brother-in-law of CR Mackintosh. Rathbone came to London in 1905 where he made silver and jewellery as well as teach at the Sir John Cass School of Art. |
| Bibliographic reference | Jervis, Simon, Victorian and Edwardian decorative art: the Handley-Read collection, London, Royal Academy of Arts, 1972 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | CIRC.58-1960 |
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| Record created | December 31, 2008 |
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