A very good and useful silver photo frame by Archibald Knox, for Liberty & Co’s Cymric range. The frame is embossed with six classic Knox art nouveau triskelion roundels highlighted with classic blue green Liberty enamels. The frame is attached to an oak board with six copper pins in the arts and crafts style
The frame appears in the Liberty Silver Sketch Book, Westminster City Archives, London, n.d., p. 276, no. 5292 (with a variant decoration). This design was also published in Victor Arwas, Liberty Style, Tokyo, 1983, p. 117, no. S.18 and in Stephen A. Martin, Archibald Knox, London, 2001, pp. 230 and 231 (for related examples).
An identical frame sold at Sotheby’s New York with further details provided by Dr Steven Martin who helped catalogue the sale. Click link to view.
Maker: Liberty & Co
Designer: Archibald Knox
Date: 1905
Marks: L & Co, Birmingham, date letter “f ”, Cymric, 500/74
Material: Sterling silver, enamel
Size: 19 cm tall, 15 cm wide
Photographs and description courtesy of The Peartree Collection.
