AN ARTS AND CRAFTS SILVER BUTTER DISH AND KNIFE, DESIGNED BY CHARLES ROBERT ASHBEE (1863-1942), GUILD OF HANDICRAFT LTD., LONDON, 1902 hammered circular bowl, elongated looping twin-wire handle set at the shoulder with a chrysoprase cabochon, the knife with curved wirework handle bulging at a central bead and terminating in another chrysoprase cabochon dish 19cm long, 217gr (6oz) all in Provenance: Sebastian Henry Petre (1856-1934) and his wife Elise (née Sibeth 1855-1946) of Tor Bryan House, Ingatestone; thence by family descent to the present vendor. It is rare to find this dish together with its accompanying knife, but for another example see Sotheby's, London, 5 October 2004, lot 23; also see Alan Crawford, C.R. Ashbee, Architect, Designer and Romantic Socialist, Yale University, 1985, p.334 pl.167, and see the Victoria and Albert Museum, Silver, room 67, case 16, shelf 1, for a dish (without its knife). Ashbee's related double handled design version of the dish is illustrated in his Modern English Silverwork, London, 1909, p.22.