Altar, with its Ornaments and Ciborium, for a Church in Belgium
Created by Charles Sydney Spooner
Painted by H. Lawrence Christie
Partly made by Emile Hyrlen
Partly made by Isidore Maas
Date: 1916
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: religious and ritual equipment
Object type: altar
Technique: painted
Notes: This was a product of the Hampshire House Workshops, set up in Hammersmith in 1915, with Spooner as Director, to give employment to Belgian refugee craftsmen. Isidore Maas and Emile Hyrlen were refugees.
Exhibitions and other Events
Exhibited at Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society: Eleventh Exhibition, 1916
Citing this record
'Altar, with its Ornaments and Ciborium, for a Church in Belgium', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/object.php?id=msib2_1213624914, accessed 21 Sep 2023]
