Arts and Crafts Brass and Cobalt Glass Salt and Pepper, early C20th
£55.00
LOT NUMBER 138
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LOT NUMBER 138
Arts and Crafts Brass and Cobalt Glass Salt and Pepper, early C20th
An unusual pair of condiment servers for salt and pepper in which cobalt blue glass, more normally associated with the liners for pieces of a condiment set, is combined with brass metal in curious almost water-dropper like form, the ovoid glass body encased in non-functioning hinged brass mountings with a spreading foot, open at the base, narrow necks and screw top stoppers with a single hole for salt and multiple holes for pepper. There are few parallels for this design but it has characteristics of pieces produced by craftsmen working in the ‘Arts and Crafts’ movement which flourished in Britain from the late nineteenth century to the 1920s. Ornament "must be secondary to the thing decorated", declared the designer Owen Jones, and said there must be “fitness in the ornament to the thing ornamented". The rather austere design here, which admits decoration but concentrates on function, seems to follow the precepts laid down and provides an interesting example of the movement’s style.| Size: | 14 x 5.5 cm |
| Weight: | 445 grams |
| Date: | Early C20th |
| Condition: | Good condition, no issues |
| Price: | £55 |
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