Box
Box
1978 (designed and made)
1978 (designed and made)
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Michael Rowe is arguably one of the most distinguished silversmiths practising in Britain today. Trained at High Wycombe College of Technology and Art (1965-69) and the Royal College of Art (1969-72), he taught at Buckinghamshire College of Higher Education and the Camberwell College of Arts and Design before joining the staff at the Royal College of Art in 1976. In 1984 he was made Senior Tutor at the RCA and in 2006, Professor. He has exhibited in group and solo shows in the UK, America, Australia and the Far East. In 1988 he was the winner of the Sotheby's Decorative Arts Award; and in 1998 he was a prizewinner in the European Prize for Contemporary Art and Design-led Crafts organised by the World Crafts Council. In 2002, he was the recipient of the Golden Ring of Honour from the association of German Goldsmiths, the Gesellschaft für Goldschmidekunst. A major retrospective of his work, Michael Rowe: Poetics and Geometry, which included this box was held at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 2003.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Box (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Silver and nine carat red gold, folded, assembled and soldered |
| Brief description | Box, silver and 9 carat gold, designed and made by Michael Rowe, London, 1978 |
| Physical description | Box, consisting of silver and nine carat gold. The base is a trapezium, the sides flat sheets of silver, the bifurcated back extending beyond the sloping rim, one section folded over at the top at an acute angle, the lower left hand section tilts forward at a 45° angle across the left hand face of the box, a rectangular wing extends from the rim on the right hand side. The leading edges inlaid with strips of nine carat red gold. |
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| Production type | Unique |
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| Credit line | Purchased with funds from the James Yorke-Radleigh Bequest. |
| Summary | Michael Rowe is arguably one of the most distinguished silversmiths practising in Britain today. Trained at High Wycombe College of Technology and Art (1965-69) and the Royal College of Art (1969-72), he taught at Buckinghamshire College of Higher Education and the Camberwell College of Arts and Design before joining the staff at the Royal College of Art in 1976. In 1984 he was made Senior Tutor at the RCA and in 2006, Professor. He has exhibited in group and solo shows in the UK, America, Australia and the Far East. In 1988 he was the winner of the Sotheby's Decorative Arts Award; and in 1998 he was a prizewinner in the European Prize for Contemporary Art and Design-led Crafts organised by the World Crafts Council. In 2002, he was the recipient of the Golden Ring of Honour from the association of German Goldsmiths, the Gesellschaft für Goldschmidekunst. A major retrospective of his work, Michael Rowe: Poetics and Geometry, which included this box was held at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 2003. |
| Bibliographic reference | Richard Hill and Martina Margetts, Michael Rowe, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in association with Lund Humphries, 2003. p.54. ill. ISBN: 0853318867 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | M.13-2012 |
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| Record created | April 25, 2012 |
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