LOT DETAILS

Materials:

sterling silver, enamel, brass, clear glass faceplate

Measurements:

6.18 in. (15.70 cm.) (height) by 3.50 in. (8.90 cm.) (width) by 2.60 in. (6.60 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

impressed L&Co/CYMRIC/5021 with Birmingham Assay Office marks; faceplate with Latin TEMPUS FUGIT (Time Flies)

Literature:

Liberty Silver Sketch Book , Westminster City Archives, London, n.d., p. 196, no. 5024. Victor Arwas,. Liberty Style, Tokyo, 1983, cover image and p. 138, no. S-107. Barbara Morris, . Liberty Design: 1874-1914 , London, 1989, p. 83. Stephen Martin, . Archibald Knox , London, 1995, pp. 87 and 137 (for an 1899 sketch of the model). Victor Arwas,. Art Nouveau from Mackintosh to Liberty: The Birth of a Style , London, 2000, pp. 2 and 97. Michael Jeffery. , Arts and Crafts Style, New York, 2001, cover and p. 152. Stephen Martin,. Archibald Knox , London, 2001, pp. 177 and 234. . Archibald Knox: Beauty and Modernity, a Designer Ahead of His Time , exh. cat., The Archibald Knox Society, London, 2014, p. 14, no. 7 (for an example executed in only green enamel