Description
with four prongs, and pierced terminal, bears maker’s mark DWH (David W. Hislop), hallmarked Glasgow 1902
Dimensions
23cm long
Footnote
Provenance: Fra H. Newbery
Elsie Newbery and by family descent
Barclay Lennie Fine Art, Glasgow
Literature: Howarth, Thomas, 'Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Modern Movement', New York, 1953, pl. 50
Note: In 1902 Jessie and Fra Newbery commissioned from Mackintosh a design for a twelve place setting of dining cutlery, each set containing a soup spoon, dessert spoon, dinner fork and dessert fork (knives were supplied separately from a stock pattern). The commission was handled by a jeweller's in Glasgow, Edwards & Company, and the cutlery was made by D W Hislop, a Glasgow silversmith who worked with Mackintosh on other projects. The entire set of cutlery was later divided equally between the Newberys' daughters, Mary and Elsie; Mary's pieces were sold separately during the 1970s and 1980s. Three of the twelve sets were recently sold in these rooms, lots 21, 22 and 23, included as part of the Taffner Collection in September 2012. This rare fork is one of the few from this set remaining in private hands.