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A Rock Crystal Box with Enamelled Gold mounts, Algernon Asprey LTD, Sheffield.
About the Item
An oval, the lid applied with a pink enamel flower and green leaves on which rests a gold butterfly with pierced wings, twisted rope cagework mounts, the base rim engraved 'Designed & enamelled by Philip Barnes, made by Ron Edwards for Algernon Asprey, maker's mark, Sheffield gold standard marks and date letter.
Gold 18 carats.
Algernon Asprey was the sixth generations of the family whose name has become internationally known for fine design and craftsmanship. His father encouraged him to develop his artistic talent and after leaving Charterhouse he spent four years at the Polytechnic School of Art. He joined the family firm as an artist and designer in 1933 and acquired such a reputation as an outstanding designer and goldsmith that he was able to leave the family business in 1971 to set up his own firm. His aim was to 're-establish crafstmanship as it existed in the 18th century. (...) During the 1880s large workshops were built and a specialist crafstman would spend all day fashioning spoon bowls, for instance, which would be finished by another person, rather than one man creating the entire item from start to finish. This assembly-line piecework caused the disintegration of the crafts in their pureste sense.'
Asprey worked with well over 100 crafstmen in small workshop throughout the country, as well as his own nucleus of crafstmen in London. Algernon Asprey also designed royal apartments in the Middle East. The firm stopped when Algernon Asprey died.
- Creator:Algernon Asprey Ltd
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- Dimensions:Height: 1.58 in (40 mm)Width: 3.55 in (90 mm)Depth: 2.56 in (65 mm)
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- Date of Manufacture:1975
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use.
- Seller Location:Paris, FR
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