This bowl may have been specially commissioned from Ashbee by John Llewellyn, partner in Liberty & Co., of Regent Street and chief inspiration of the firm's Cymric Silver and jewellery scheme. To the knowledge of llewellyn's daughter, Miss Nesta Llewellyn, the piece was certainly acquired by her father. This is ironical, as Ashbee feared and disliked the Cymric venture, correctly foreseeing that its mass produced wares, which undercut the Guild's productions, would seriously damage small workshops like his own. Llewellyn, however, had the reputation of being a man of discrimintaion and his acquisition shows that he admired Ashbee's work.