Candelabra for British Museum, 1983; pair from group of six designed

to 'precise and exact' brief of the Museum's director Sir David Wilson:

 'It should be low and graceful, like a Viking boat, and hold only two candles.'

The arms of this fine piece were hammered from sheet steel by John Limbrey

in the Chipping Campden workshop.

Churches, embassies, universities, commercial concerns and

museums across the world commissioned work from him. Goldsmiths' Hall

in London became his spiritual home in the great days of Graham

Hughs's design stewardship. Silver design became sculpture in the hands

of Robert Welch, at one moment powerful and robust, at

another flower-like in its delicacy. The wafer box with applied madonna

lily on its lid, made for the church at Elmley Castle,

Worcestershire, makes a delightful contrast with his British

Museum candelabra.