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Marks, Gilbert Leigh
(Production)
Pewter with lightly hammered surface, embossed with laternating buds and points radiating from a flower-shaped outlined in the middle. Circular with curved sides.
Given by Miss Ellen Bicknell
Height: 2.2 cm
Width: 11.9 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Given
(1984)
by
Bicknell, Ellen, Miss
Early 20th century
Victoria I
Production date:
AD/CE 1900
Born in 1861 in Croydon, south London (where he remained until his premature death from syphilis), Marks appears to have developed his silversmithing skills in his spare time. In 1896, although still working as ‘something in the City’, he had two assistants, who helped him produce his metalwork and by 1901 was working full-time as a silversmith. His work, in silver and pewter, hammered with tools from both the front and the back to create raised decoration, was praised for its handmade qualities. Most of his pieces were in a naturalistic style, incorporating plants or animals. His obituary in The Burlington Magazine referred to his insistence ‘that the smith must be at once the designer, the artist, and craftsman. Marks would have no dies, no machinery, no repetitions.’ His early death resulted in his significant contributions to the Arts and Crafts movement being overlooked.
Decoration:
Inscription present: Marks underlined
Accession number: M.65-1984
Primary reference Number: 125479
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2020) "Ashtray"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/125479 Accessed: 2021-12-07 12:24:02
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