International studio (33.1907/1908(1908))

Metal Work at Boston


ALMS BASIN, COPPER AND SILVER

DESIGNED AND EXECUTED BY ARTHUR J. STONE

works are the alms basin of copper and silver, about
nineteen inches in diameter, severely simple in con-
tour and depend ing for effectiveness upon the qu ality
of its surfaces; and the hanging lamp of copper,
brass and silver.
George J. Hunt, formerly manager of a coopera-
tive silver shop in Liverpool and now associated
with the workshop of the Society of Arts and Crafts
in Chestnut Street, Boston, is another able crafts-
man who knows metals and has artistic capacity.
His pair of brass candlesticks displayed at the

exhibition last November represented a by-product
of an important silver work commission on which
he has been engaged. Paul Revere silver was
shown, it will be remembered by many readers of
the International Studio, at the Boston Museum
of Fine Arts last winter. Among other articles on
exhibition was a pair of silver candlesticks, which
a well-to-do collector saw and admired. Under
the impression that there would be no objection to
such a course he commissioned Mr. Hunt to make
for him some candlesticks based upon the lines of

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