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- 1981 (Creation)
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1 item
Content and Structure
Scope and content
Tall, arum lily shaped hammered silver candlestick (Edinburgh hallmark, 1981, makers stamp RD) with textured gilt area at base picking out imaginary trail of molten wax.
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Biographical history
Rodger Drew trained at the Glasgow School of Art and Glasgow University. He has worked as a silk-screen printer, graphic designer, silversmith and lecturer, exhibiting and undertaking commissions throughout Britain. He Lives and works in Auchterarder in Perthshire, dividing time between writing and art. Writer of “The Stream's Secret: The Symbolism of Dante Gabriel Rossetti”. Rodger won the Johnson Matthey Silver award in 1981.
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Custodial history
Winning piece for a Johnson Mattey Metals award in the Silversmithing Design Competition.
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Physical Description
Silver and silver gilt
Dimensions: 300 x 118 x 118 mm