Price
£2450.00This object is eligible for a Certificate of BADA Provenance
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W.A.S. Benson Cafe au Lait coffee and milk handled jugs.
Electroplated copper of low-waisted baluster shape with raised dome foot, beaked pouring spouts and ebony side handles. Designed to pour both milk and coffee at the same time as was the fashion of the day. One with finial of ebony, the other of bone.
Stamped with maker’s mark of BENSON, Benson’s logo of three hammers between the initials W.A.S.B with the letters M N, which may well be the initials of the individual coppersmith. The registration No. 398954 to the bases indicate the date of 1902.
English, circa 1902.
Height 8.75” (17cm) Max. Diameter 4” (10cm).
Stock No. 1182.
William Arthur Smith Benson (1854-1924) was one of the most important and commercially successful designers within the Arts & Crafts movement. See ‘W.A.S.Benson, Arts and Crafts Luminary and Pioneer of Modern Design’, published by A.C.C., edited by Ian Hamerton, pp 77-78.
This object incorporates old ivory and has been registered with Defra
Stock number
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