Tea Caddy
1925-1926 (made)
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H.C. Craythorn (1881-1949) was a silversmith and designer and a pupil of Arthur Gaskin. His brilliant talents were recognised by W. H . Haseler in 1898 when Craythorn was seventeen. He worked for Haseler's for some forty years and produced most of the designs executed by them for Liberty & Co. His most distinguished and now celebrated work, designed by Archibald Knox and executed by Craythorn, is the silver casket supplied by Liberty to the Rockefeller family c 1900 and is now in the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Silver, embossed |
| Brief description | Tea caddy, silver, Birmingham hallmarks for 1925-26, mark of Liberty & Co., probably designed by H.C. Craythorn. |
| Physical description | Tea caddy, silver, oval in plan with a small detachable oval lid and slightly projecting foot. The sides and curved shoulder are divided into panels by a line and trefoil motif. The panelled frieze below the shoulder and the convex top are both embossed ith a fruit and leaf design. |
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| Object history | Formally in the possession of Miss Nesta Llewellyn, the daughter of John Llewellyn, the partner of Arthur Lasenby Liberrty. |
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| Summary | H.C. Craythorn (1881-1949) was a silversmith and designer and a pupil of Arthur Gaskin. His brilliant talents were recognised by W. H . Haseler in 1898 when Craythorn was seventeen. He worked for Haseler's for some forty years and produced most of the designs executed by them for Liberty & Co. His most distinguished and now celebrated work, designed by Archibald Knox and executed by Craythorn, is the silver casket supplied by Liberty to the Rockefeller family c 1900 and is now in the Museum of Modern Art, New York. |
| Bibliographic reference | Liberty's 1875-1975, London, HMSO, 1975, p.98.ill. |
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| Accession number | M.186-1976 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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