Howell James & Co.

Howell James & Company was a firm of jewellers and silversmiths based in Regent Street in London which operated between 1819 and 1911. In 1876 they added galleries showing professional art pottery and the fashionable amateur china painting, and immediately became the main London venue for this.[1][2]

Aesthetic Movement clock by Lewis Foreman Day, c. 1878, Cherry case, ceramic and aluminum. LACMA
An illustration of a Howell James & Co. dressing case entered into the International Exhibition of 1862, in London

It sold items by students and designers of the South Kensington School.[3]

In 1884 the company became a limited company and their name changed to Howell & James Ltd.[2]

Notable items

An example of a Lewis Foreman Day clock, designed in about 1880, and made by Howell James & Co., with ebonised birch wood case and a porcelain face, is held by the Victoria and Albert Museum.[4] The LACMA has a similar example, shown above.

References
  1. Anderson, Anne, in Crafting the Woman Professional in the Long Nineteenth Century: Artistry and Industry in Britain, pp. 130-139, editors Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi, Patricia Zakreski, 2016, Routledge, ISBN 1317158652, 9781317158653, google books
  2. "Howell James and Co". Daniel Lucien. Archived from the original on 5 September 2013. Retrieved 8 May 2013.
  3. "Howell, James & Co". haslamandwhiteway.com. Retrieved 8 May 2013.
  4. "Clock by Day, Lewis Foreman, born 1845 - died 1910". V&A Images. 1 May 2013. Retrieved 8 May 2013.

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