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Christopher Dresser / James Couper & Sons Aventurine blown glass Clutha vase c. 1895
CHRISTOPHER DRESSER (1834-1904) UK
JAMES COUPER & SONS Glasgow
Clutha vase c. 1895
Aventurine blown glass with iridescent gold streaks and internal bubbles
Illustration: Christopher Dresser, Widar Halen (Oxford: Phaidon, Christies Limited, 1990) p. 196, illust. 228.
For more information: Liberty Style: the classic years, 1898-1910, Mervyn Levy (New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1986); Christopher Dresser: the power of design, Christopher Wilk (New York: Zurland – Zabar, 1993).
H: 19 3/8 ”
Christopher Dresser / James Couper & Sons Aventurine blown glass Clutha vase c. 1895
TIM LIDDY (b. 1963) Missouri
“Sorry” (1939) The Fashionble English Game 2006
Oil on copper, plywood back
Signed in script: Tim Liddy “circa 1939” 2006, red circular ring
Provenance: Kidder-Smith Gallery (Boston, MA)
H: 5 1/8” x W: 4 3/16”
With his recent paintings, Liddy has both reasserted the construct of hyperrealist painting and developed a thoroughly unique advancement of that mode by extending the cultural reality of the indexed original. Based on the illustrated box lids of vintage board games, Liddy has recontextualized a subject, which evokes the underlying rules of life. Painted on copper or steel in the precise dimensions of the original, the metal is then manipulated to demonstrate the exact rips and tears from years of usage and includes trompe-l’oeil renditions of the scotch tape that might be holding the cardboard box together, the assorted stains, or the various graffiti of time. Liddy leaves no possibility of ambivalence, these works speak to a concurrent understanding of their original object identity and to themselves as works of art engaged in historical and psychological dialogue.
ANTONIO PIÑEDA (1919-2009) Taxco, Mexico
Creamer and sugar c.1960
Handwrought sterling silver with an attenuated and scalloped form, wood finial
Marks: Mexican Eagle silver standard mark, Antonio Taxco (crown mark), 930, STERLING SILVER
Exhibited: Triennale di Milano 1960