Motivated by an aesthetic as well as a social agenda, Charles Robert Ashbee started his Guild and School of Handicraft in London’s slummy East End in 1888. Objects made by hand at the guild were retailed on Brook Street, Mayfair, at the heart of the city’s fashionable West End. Unfortunately, commerce and social engineering made unprofit-able partners. In 1902, the guild moved to Chipping Campden in the picturesque Cotswalds, but it closed several years later. This exquisitely detailed muffin dish, made before the move, bears Ashbee’s initials as well as London hallmarks from 1900. The subtly hammered surface suggests the hand of the artist. Following Ashbee’s example, a similar organization, the Birmingham Guild of Handicraft, was founded in 1890. Its motto was “By Hammer and Hand.”