CARDIFF.- Ben Ryan – the 16th winner of an annual competition run by the Goldsmiths’ Company, which focuses on young silversmithing students in Britain today – was faced with a brief of producing a presentation dish for a specific species of fish. On Thursday, 25 November 2010, Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales was presented with his Mytilidae Dish (so called after the Latin name for the family of small salt water mussels), which will enter the Museum’s collection. Ben Ryan was chosen as the winner of the 2010’s Young Designer-Silversmith Award organised by the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, London and therefore given the opportunity of making a piece of silver in a leading silversmithing workshop for a national museum collection. Ben’s work was overseen by master craftsmen Carl Padgham and Andrew Putland in their workshop at Pluckley in Kent. He worked with one of the largest blank