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  Christopher Dresser / Benham & Froud Rare Aesthetic Movement Copper coffee pot 1888

  CHRISTOPHER DRESSER  (1834-1904)  UK
  BENHAM & FROUD  London, England

  Coffee pot   1888

  Copper, brass, wood handle and finial

  ***One of only two known models of this Dresser / Benham & Froud coffee pot.

  Marks: maker’s cipher, Reg. no. 114566 for 1888
  Only other model known illustrated: Christopher Dresser, by Widar Halén (Oxford:  Phaidon, 1990), illus. 192, p. 170 (variant model); Truth, Beauty, Power: Dr. Christopher Dresser 1834-1904, exhib. cat. Historical Design, Inc. (New York, 1998) p. 66.

  H: 9″ x D: 7 3/8″

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  Michael Powolny / Lötz Witwe Glaswerks Jugendstil Set of Three “Tango” Glass Vases c. 1920

  PROF.  MICHAEL POWOLNY  (1871-1954)  Austria
  LÖTZ WITWE GLASWERKS   Klostermuhle

  Set of three “Tango” glass vases  c. 1920

  Blown tall yellow glass with applied black  handles, blown orange glass with applied cobalt blue handles, blown red glass with applied black handle-form feet

  Marks: Cecho. Slovakia (acid etched in an oval) (red vase)

  Yellow and black vase              H: 6 1/2” x Dia: 6″
  Orange and cobalt blue vase   H: 5 1/2” x Dia: 6″
  Red and black vase                  H: 3 1/2” x Dia: 6″

  For more information see: Lötz: Böhmisches Glas 1880-1940, Band 1, Helmut Ricke and Ernst Ploil, (Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1989) ; Glass of the Avant-Garde, From Vienna Secession to Bauhaus, The Torsten  Bröhan Collection from the Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, Madrid, Torsten Bröhan, Martin Eidelberg (Munich, London, New York: Prestel Verlag, 2001).

  Other Powolny works: Jugendstil Art Nouveau: floral und functional forms, Siegfried  Wichmann (New York / Boston: Graphic Society, Little, Brown and Co., 1984), p. 226; Vienna 1900-1930: Art in the Home, Historical Design exhibition catalogue (New York: Historical Design, Inc., 1996), p. 45; Modernism:Modernist Design 1880-1940, The Norwest Collection, Norwest Corporation, Minneapolis, Alastair Duncan (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England:  The Antique Collector’s Club, 1998).

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