Stanley George Morris

Born 30 November 1919
Died 31 October 2010

Active: 1938 - 2010

Country of birth and death: England

Silversmith

Born in Handsworth, Birmingham. He was the son of the silversmith, James Morris who worked as an assistant to Georgie Gaskin between 1901-10. Stanley studied at the Vittoria Street School for Jewellers and Silversmiths and the Central School of Art under Bernard Cuzner. During the 1930s he was awarded the Messenger Prize, John Henry Chamberlain Silver medal prize, and two Goldsmiths Company Scholarships.

Morris received early commissions from Bernard Cuzner, Cyrial Shiner, and for Birmingham Assay Office. Amongst these works were the Olympic Torch for the Goldsmiths Company to Bernard Cuzner’s design, which won them an honorary mention in the Olympic Arts Competition of the Olympiad 1948 and a Fluted Salt executed to Cyril Shiner’s design in 1951, commissioned by the Salters Company to mark the Festival of Britain.

Over a lengthy career Morris executed many of his own designs for private, ceremonial and ecclesiastical silverware. Examples of his work were included in 'Birmingham Gold and Silver 1773-1973: an Exhibition celebrating the Bicentenary of the Assay Office', 28 July - 16 September 1973, Birmingham Art Gallery. These pieces included: Crozier 1938 (aged 17 unmarked) (which is now exhibited in Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery); Wafer Box Octagonal 1939 (unmarked); Coffee Pot with ivory 1939 (makers mark); and Covered Bowl marked 1948 (lent by the Goldsmiths Company); and Wine Flagon 1951 (lent by Wrekin College). He died in Gloucestershire.

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Citing this record

'Stanley George Morris', 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/person.php?id=ann_1400848309, accessed 29 Mar 2023]