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Birmingham Guild of Handicraft | 4 Arts & Crafts Wall Lights | England c.1900
£3,995.00
A set of four arts and crafts wall lights attributed to the Birmingham Guild of handicraft, each roundel of lightly-hammered copper, with very attractive variable patina and supporting pendant a James Powell & Sons vaseline-glass lampshade, English,c.1900.
(N.B. one shade slightly larger than remaining three).
Diam. 21cm/8.5ins; depth 22/8.5; ht. as displayed 38/15.
The Birmingham Guild of Handicraft 1888-1905
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Birmingham Guild of Handicraft was an Arts & Crafts organisation. Its motto was ‘By Hammer and Hand’.
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Around 1888 It began as a loose part of the Birmingham Kyrle Society, then became a more fully formed group within the Kyrle Society in 1890
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In 1895, the Guild set up as an independent workshop and limited company with the guidance of Edward R. Taylor.
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The Guild produced furniture and metal-ware, taking special advantage of the switch to electric lighting and the consequent need for new light fittings.
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Arthur Dixon was the chief designer and head of metalwork workshop. Other members were Albert Edward Jones and Thomas Birkett.
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Due to commercial pressures, there was a merger with E & R Gittins in 1905
Whitefriars Glass Company, London
James Powell & Sons
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In 1834 James Powell, then a 60-year-old London wine merchant and entrepreneur, purchased the Whitefriars Glass Company, a small glass-works off Fleet Street in London.
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Powell, and his sons Arthur and Nathanael, were newcomers to glass making, but soon acquired the necessary expertise and specialised in making church stain glass windows.
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During the latter part of the c.19th, the firm formed a close association with leading architects and designers. Whitefriars produced the glass that Phillip Webb used in his designs for William Morris
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By 1900 production lines of vaseline and opalescent glass-ware, including lampshades, were proving to be extremely successful with clients such as William Arthur Smith Benson using their glass in the design of their lights.
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The firm’s name was changed to Powell & Sons (Whitefriars) Ltd in 1919
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