DOI Heft:
No. 55 (October, 1897)
DOI Artikel:The Guild of Handicraft: a visit to Essex House
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18390#0056
A Visit to Essex I louse
this, as in all these metals, enrichment may be ob-
tained by perforations, in addition to the relief of
the hammered work. On our first visit, a very
charming service was being executed in silver, as
may be seen in the drawing of some appren-
tices at work (page 29). Nothing comes amiss—a
copper bowl, a finger plate, or the hands of a clock.
The largest undertaking of this kind was doubtless
the copper frame which the Guild executed for Mr.
CLOCK CASKS
DESIGNED AND EXECUTED AT ESSEX HOUSE
Holman Hunt's picture of the May morning cere-
mony at Magdalen Tower.
Jewellery.
The jewellery is partly cast and partly ham-
mered in gold or silver. If cast the process is that
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known as waste wax, now so generally familiar as
hardly to require description. Set with stones, or
treated in enamel, the results are of great richness.
CHATELAINE IN SILVER
DESIGNED AND EXECUTED AT ESSEX HOUSE
A peculiarity of Essex House jewellery is the in-
sistence upon the aesthetic as opposed to the com-
mercial value of precious stones. Colour is a
quality always held in view, and thus we find
combinations of copper and yellow crystals, gold
and topaz, silver and obstein, red enamel and
amethyst, blue enamel and opal, and the use of a
variety of stones contemptuously regarded by the
ordinary jeweller as " off colour " or unmarketable.
Enamel.
Enamel for fusing upon metal comes from the
maker in lumps very like the coloured glass of
this, as in all these metals, enrichment may be ob-
tained by perforations, in addition to the relief of
the hammered work. On our first visit, a very
charming service was being executed in silver, as
may be seen in the drawing of some appren-
tices at work (page 29). Nothing comes amiss—a
copper bowl, a finger plate, or the hands of a clock.
The largest undertaking of this kind was doubtless
the copper frame which the Guild executed for Mr.
CLOCK CASKS
DESIGNED AND EXECUTED AT ESSEX HOUSE
Holman Hunt's picture of the May morning cere-
mony at Magdalen Tower.
Jewellery.
The jewellery is partly cast and partly ham-
mered in gold or silver. If cast the process is that
34
known as waste wax, now so generally familiar as
hardly to require description. Set with stones, or
treated in enamel, the results are of great richness.
CHATELAINE IN SILVER
DESIGNED AND EXECUTED AT ESSEX HOUSE
A peculiarity of Essex House jewellery is the in-
sistence upon the aesthetic as opposed to the com-
mercial value of precious stones. Colour is a
quality always held in view, and thus we find
combinations of copper and yellow crystals, gold
and topaz, silver and obstein, red enamel and
amethyst, blue enamel and opal, and the use of a
variety of stones contemptuously regarded by the
ordinary jeweller as " off colour " or unmarketable.
Enamel.
Enamel for fusing upon metal comes from the
maker in lumps very like the coloured glass of