Fern Dish

Karl Kipp|Roycroft

ca. 1911 · Copper, brass · The American Wing

Metalsmith Karl Kipp created this fern dish at Roycroft, an Arts and Crafts community in East Aurora, New York. Roycroft's founder, Elbert Hubbard, marketed a variety of books, furniture, leather goods, and metalwork inspired by the British Arts and Crafts Movement. Although the Littles did not own a fern dish just like this one, the room was furnished with several low bowls for holding arrangements of flowers and leaves, reflecting Wright’s belief in bringing nature into the home.

Artist

Karl Kipp|Roycroft

Date

ca. 1911

Medium

Copper, brass

Culture

American

Department

The American Wing

Credit line

Purchase, Theodore R. Gamble Jr. Gift, in honor of his mother, Mrs. Theodore Robert Gamble, 1982