Lot 62
CLEMENT HEATON (1861-1940)
ARTS & CRAFTS CHARGER, 1895-1906
Auction: 12 October 2022 at 11:00 BST
Description
cloisonné copper and enamel, marked to reverse CHATOYANT ENAMEL
Dimensions
42.5cm diameter
Footnote
Note: Clement Heaton, an early member of A.H. Mackmurdo’s Century Guild, set up his company Heatons Cloisonné-Mosaic Ltd at 6 Berners Street, London in 1887, a year after selling his share in his father’s lucrative stained glass business Heaton, Butler & Bayne for £4,800. He patented his enamelling technique in 1886, inspired by medieval techniques that precluded the firing process and instead used coloured cements: a mixture of resin, beeswax, sulphur marble dust and coloured pigments. Hardening over time, these cements could be polished to give the soft matt finish characteristic of Heaton’s work as seen in the present example.