Lot 79
AN EARLY 20TH CENTURY ARTS & CRAFTS SPOON
with a "fanned" openwork terminal decorated with applied beads, by Effie and Eleanor Ward, Birmingham 1911; 6.25" (16 cms) long; 1.1 oz
*Effie Ward was a well regarded and widely exhibited enameller and jeweller. Around 1903-1910 she assisted the Gaskins, having been their star pupil at the Birmingham School of Art. Effies' older sister Eleanor, also studied at the Birmingham School of Art and was a teacher at King Edward's School . She was a skilled metalworker, winning the Hukin & Heath repousse prize for a hammered and decorated rosewater dish in 1894.
