Styles Silver
Home
Home 		Back
Back 		Sales Terms
Sales Terms 		Search
Search 		Contact Us
Contact Us


William Phipps

Scroll down to see selection of items for sale
William Phipps was born in 1936 and was apprenticed to church silversmith Michael Murray before opening his own workshop in Clerkenwell. He has made a speciality of hand-forged silver, a technique where, using a heavy hammer, the silver is hand-beaten into shape while hot. This traditional skill for producing cutlery is now rare, producing utensils which resonate with their human crafting. As a member of the Association of British Designer-Silversmiths he was asked, with 36 other silversmiths, to make the Millennium Canteen for Sheffield City Council and he produced a fine pair of fish knife and fork. Phipps has taught part-time at the Christopher Wren School and Camberwell College of Art, London and is a member of the Art Worker's Guild. He is a Freeman of both the City of London and the Worshipful Company of Silversmiths and his work can be seen at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Birmingham City Art Gallery; Gateshead Museum; Crafts Council Collection and at Goldsmith's Hall.

Personal statement: "All work is either hand-forged, in the case of cutlery, out of single solid pieces of bar, or else hand raised and planished as in the case of bowls and goblets etc."
 



Hand Forged Heavy Rattail SpoonHand Forged Heavy Rattail Spoon

London 1975
William Phipps
Length: 15cm
£89

Click image to enlarge  


Millenium Canteen Catalogue

Sheffield City Council
comissioned a canteen
to be made for the Millenium

Including work by Brian Asquith, Micahel Bolton,
William Phipps, Richard Fox, Julie Chamberlain

In total 37 Silversmiths

Well illustrated Catalogue

£10

Click image to enlarge

 


 Millenium Canteen Catalogue
Hand Forged Silver Condiment SpoonHand Forged Silver Condiment Spoon

London 1979
William Phipps
Length: 9.25cm

SOLD

Click image to enlarge  


Heavy Hand Forged Rattail Silver Serving Spoon
London 1976
William Phipps
Length: 19½cm

SOLD

Click image to enlarge and
see reverse of spoon 


 Heavy Hand Forged Rattail Silver Serving Spoon
Heavy Hand Forged Rattail Silver Spoon Heavy Hand Forged Rattail Silver Spoon
London 1973
William Phipps
Length: 14cm

SOLD


Click image to enlarge