 | Modern Design Silver Tea Set
London 1957 Wakely and Wheeler Signed by B R Cain (only tray signed with facsimile) Height of Hot water: 17cm Diameter of bowl:12.5cm Diameter of tray: 41.5cm Weight: 3.9kg (including handles) £3950 Click image to enkarge and see further images
CAIN, Brian R Born in 1931 and served his apprenticeship with Wakely and Wheeler. He studied on day release at the Central School of Arts and Crafts with contemporaries John Bartholomew and Lew Marlow. Payne and Son of Oxford and George Tarratt in Leicester retailed some of the pieces he designed for Wakely and Wheeler in the late 1950's. Cain later moved to C J Vander where he was the company's design manager.
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