DOI Heft:
No. 89 (July, 1904)
DOI Artikel:Wood, Esther: Some metal-work by Omar Ramsden and Alwyn C. E. Carr
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26962#0041
Omar Ramsden and A. C. E. Carr
historical interest are given to the design by
the representation of native kraals beneath the
mounted figure of victory; and the band of
castles is intended to suggest the line of block-
houses wherein the regiment was largely
employed. The champlev'e enamels embody the
arms of the various places connected with their
service, and the translucent enamelling at the base
of the trophy symbolises the flames of war. The
red rose of Lancaster introduced into the decora-
tion is, of course, the badge of the regiment.
Somewhat akin to this in form and spirit is the
slender and quaintly shaped Founders’Cup executed
for a college in India (p. 23). The edge is bordered
with a rich band of decoration in which enamels
and emblematic shields are set, and the stem has a
curious and quite novel design of climbing branches
lightly beaten on the silver.
Their own delightful little
Omar Khayyam wine-cup,
with its arrangement of the
vine in pierced silver, is one
of the happiest inspirations
of these designers for the
more homely and hospitable
kinds of silver-ware. They
have also a silver salad-bowl
in a design based upon endive
—quite an uncommon subject
for decoration, and effective
to a surprising degree (p. 21).
This figure, pierced and
beaten, forms the stem of
the bowl, and on the plain-silver base is in-
scribed their own recipe for salad. Some of the
silver rose-bowls executed on commission are
remarkably handsome pieces of table ware ; one in
particular, designed for H. E. West, Esq., is notice-
able for its breezy and vigorous decoration. This
represents a fleet of mediteval ships of the merchant
venturer type, with the arms of four great cities—
London, Paris, Florence, and Genoa—emblazoned
on their sails. On the opposite side of the bowl,
in contrast to this group eloquent of Prosperity,
there appears a symbol of Adversity—a fine ship
stranded and attacked by pirates or corsairs.
Another very pretty rose-bowl has the signs of the
Zodiac heraldically treated; another has an in-
genious and homely decoration of a wattle-work
fence, with cocks, turkeys, and other farmyard
WINE-CUPS IN WROUGHT, PIERCED, AND HAMMERED SILVER
BY O. RAMSDEN AND A. C. E. CARR
25
historical interest are given to the design by
the representation of native kraals beneath the
mounted figure of victory; and the band of
castles is intended to suggest the line of block-
houses wherein the regiment was largely
employed. The champlev'e enamels embody the
arms of the various places connected with their
service, and the translucent enamelling at the base
of the trophy symbolises the flames of war. The
red rose of Lancaster introduced into the decora-
tion is, of course, the badge of the regiment.
Somewhat akin to this in form and spirit is the
slender and quaintly shaped Founders’Cup executed
for a college in India (p. 23). The edge is bordered
with a rich band of decoration in which enamels
and emblematic shields are set, and the stem has a
curious and quite novel design of climbing branches
lightly beaten on the silver.
Their own delightful little
Omar Khayyam wine-cup,
with its arrangement of the
vine in pierced silver, is one
of the happiest inspirations
of these designers for the
more homely and hospitable
kinds of silver-ware. They
have also a silver salad-bowl
in a design based upon endive
—quite an uncommon subject
for decoration, and effective
to a surprising degree (p. 21).
This figure, pierced and
beaten, forms the stem of
the bowl, and on the plain-silver base is in-
scribed their own recipe for salad. Some of the
silver rose-bowls executed on commission are
remarkably handsome pieces of table ware ; one in
particular, designed for H. E. West, Esq., is notice-
able for its breezy and vigorous decoration. This
represents a fleet of mediteval ships of the merchant
venturer type, with the arms of four great cities—
London, Paris, Florence, and Genoa—emblazoned
on their sails. On the opposite side of the bowl,
in contrast to this group eloquent of Prosperity,
there appears a symbol of Adversity—a fine ship
stranded and attacked by pirates or corsairs.
Another very pretty rose-bowl has the signs of the
Zodiac heraldically treated; another has an in-
genious and homely decoration of a wattle-work
fence, with cocks, turkeys, and other farmyard
WINE-CUPS IN WROUGHT, PIERCED, AND HAMMERED SILVER
BY O. RAMSDEN AND A. C. E. CARR
25