DSCG Arts & Crafts Silver Bowl, 1910 Duchess of Sutherland

This is a beautiful arts & crafts silver 2-handled bowl made by the Duchess of Sutherland Cripples Guild.

The bowl is simply decorated with chased flower-heads to the side and a punched flower head motif to the base. It is a light and airy piece with a pleasing look on the eye. It is in beautiful condition.

In 1900, Lady Millicent St.Clair-Erskine, Duchess of Sutherland began a guild for crippled children in Stoke-on-Trent to learn a craft and produce metalware in the arts & crafts style. This became the Duchess of Sutherland Cripples Guild and silverware produced by the guild bears both the "MS" maker's mark of the Duchess as well as the much sought after D.S.C.G surmounted by a ducal coronet stamp which can be found to the side of this piece.