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Christopher Dresser / James Couper & Sons Blown glass cabinet vase c. 1890 SOLD
CHRISTOPHER DRESSER (1834-1904) UK
JAMES COUPER & SONS Glasgow, Scotland
“Clutha” vase c. 1890
Blown glass with a strawberry red and green swirl design and internal bubbles
Marks: CLUTHA DESIGNED BY CD REGISTERED (acid etched)
Illustrated: Truth, Beauty, Power: Dr. Christopher Dresser 1834-1904, exhib. cat. Historical Design, Inc. (New York, 1998) p. 72/73
H: 3 1/4″
Christopher Dresser / James Couper & Sons Blown glass cabinet vase c. 1890 SOLD
MICHAEL POWOLNY (1871-1954) Austria
GMUNDNER KERAMIK Vienna
Vase c. 1912
White glazed pottery with black striped division and four black glazed ball feet
Marks: GK (in a square) 289, D/3
For more information see: Michael Powolny: Keramik und Glas aus Wien 1900 bis 1950, Elisabeth Frottier (Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 1990); Wiener Keramik, Historismus, Jugendstil, Art Déco, Waltraud Neuwirth (Braunschweig: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1974).
H: 6 1/8″
Price: $3,850
CHRISTOPHER DRESSER (1834-1904) UK
JAMES DIXON & SONS Sheffield, England
“Gothic Arch” toast rack c.1881
Silver-plate
Marks: JD&S (stamped), EP, #72, “D”
Drawing illustrated: Christopher Dresser’s 1881 design and account book
For more information see: Truth, Beauty, Power: Dr. Christopher Dresser 1834-1904, exhib. cat. Historical Design, Inc. (New York, 1998); Charles Handley-Read, “High Victorian Design: An Illustrated Commentary” in ‘Design 1860-1960’ sixth conference report of the Victorian Society (London, 1968); Victorian and Edwardian Decorative Art: The Handley-Read Collection, ed. Simon Jervis (London: Diploma Galleries,1972); Christopher Dresser: pottery, glass, metalwork, (London: The Fine Arts Society Ltd., 1972); Isabelle Anscombe & Charlotte Gere, Arts & Crafts in Britain and America (New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1978); Truth, Beauty and Design, Victorian, Edwardian and later Decorative Art (London: Fischer Fine Art Limited),; A Thing of Beauty: Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Arts & Crafts Movement and Aesthetic Movement Objects in Atlanta Collections (Atlanta, GA: The High Museum of Art, 1980), cat. no. M2; Widar Halén, Christopher Dresser (Oxford: Phaidon, 1990),; Judy Rudoe, Decorative Arts 1850-1950: A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection (London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1991),; Gerda Breuer, Von Morris bis Mackintosh – Reformbewegung zwischen Kunstgewerbe und Sozialutopie, Arts and Crafts (Darmstadt: Institut Mathildenhöhe, 1994/95); “The Silver Designs of Dr. Christopher Dresser,” Shirley Bury, Apollo (December, 1962)
H: 6″ x D: 4 1/8″ x W: 4 5/8″