Tray

This copper tray was made by the Keswick School of Industrial Arts circa 1903 and is stamped ‘KSIA’. The school was founded by Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley in the 1890s and remained in operation until 1984. It is a scion of the Arts and Crafts movement, a social philosophy dedicated to the promotion of hand-crafted skills and drawing inspiration from nature as a way of combating the perceived de-human…