Arts & Crafts Hugh Wallis Large Hammered Copper Fruit Bowl

For sale is a skilfully crafted Arts & Crafts Movement copper fruit bowl circa 1907-1920. - The beautiful handcrafted and hand beaten art metalwork fruit bowl is decorated with rope turned lip. - The fruit bowl is punch stamped with the monogram Hw as shown in the photographs for Hugh Wallis to the base of the dish. The bowl sits on 4 raised copper feet to support and stabilise the hammered bowl. The inside has copper Verdigris patina as shown. - Hugh Wallis was based from Altrincham, near Manchester in the North-West of England, an artist and art metal worker of much renown from the Arts & Crafts Movement in England. - This fruit bowl showcases the technique he described as 'oxidised/oxydised' copper as an art metalwork process. This is an Arts & Crafts Movement hand crafted fruit bowl of large size with clean design, simple, usable and beautiful.