HAROLD STABLER: A silver bowl


London 1928, also stamped 'STABLER' The panelled bowl supported on a pierced frieze of stylised leaves, diameter 23.5cm, weight 19.5oz.
|Harold Stabler RDI (1872 - 1945) began his training in the Arts and Crafts movement, firstly, in the stone and wood carving at the Kendal School of Art under Arthur Simpson, and later in metalwork at the Keswick School of Industrial Art. In 1899 he left Keswick to study in the metalwork department of the Liverpool School of Art under Richard Llewellyn Rathbone. In around 1906 he moved to London to teach at the John Cass Technical Institute as head of the Art Department. Around the same time he married Phoebe Gertrude McLeish, and the couple went on to collaborate in the design and execution of jewellery, silverwork and pottery. Together they set up a business at their home in Hammersmith in 1912.Stabler was an instructor of metalwork, jewellery and enamelling at the Royal College of Art 1912-1926. He went on to design for several major silversmithing companies; Goldsmiths & Silversmiths, Adie Brothers and Wakely & Wheeler, using an 'architectural modernist geometric style, later to be called Art Deco.' He was very much part of the modern movement and was awarded the first Royal Designer for Industry in 1936, for pottery, enamelling and silversmithing, by the British Royal Society of Arts.