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  Archibald Knox / Liberty & Co. Important and Rare Tudric Clock 1902

  ARCHIBALD KNOX (1864-1933) UK
  LIBERTY & CO. London

  Extremely rare and important grand clock by Archibald Knox for Liberty & Co. This is the largest of all of the Tudric models designed and is inset with abalone shell on the sides, the front corners and on the hands of the clock.

  Marks: TUDRIC, 098

  Illustrated: The Designs of Archibald Knox for Liberty & Co., A..J. Tilbrook (London: Ornament Press Ltd., 1976) pg. 88; The Liberty Style, (Japan: Hida Takayama Museum of Arts, 1999) fig. 168, p 114; Archibald Knox, ed. by Stephen A. Martin (London: Academy Editions, 1995) p. 88.

  H: 15″ x W: 7″ x D: 5″

  ***This is the largest clock designed by Archibald Knox for
  Liberty & Co. and one of only three models known.

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  George Jakob Hunzinger New York 19th Century Rare Painted Chair 1876

  GEORGE JAKOB HUNZINGER (1835-1898) Germany/ USA

  Chair 1876

  Yellow and blue painted elaborately turned wood, blue thread woven covered metal band mesh seat (original condition)

  Marks: George Hunzinger Patent 1876

  Illustrated: The Furniture of George Hunzinger, Invention and Innovation in Nineteenth-Century America, Barry R. Harwood (Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1997) p.103.

  H: 32″ x D: 17″ x W: 20″

  GEORGE JAKOB HUNZINGER   (1835-18989)  USA

  George Hunzinger emigrated in the 1850s from the Black Forest region of Germany where his family had worked as cabinetmakers since the 17th century.  Settling in New York, he joined a community of 3,000 German furniture makers but soon distinguished himself as a maker of patent furniture and “fancy chairs”.  Hunzinger’s innovative designs are often associated with the development of the Aesthetic Movement in America.  By the 1870s, his chairs were sought after by many Americans as accent pieces for their parlors. The woven mesh or upholstery of these innovative chairs follows the original intention of the maker and the turned frame has an avant-garde, colorful and rather contemporary feeling painted in a combination of a rich ochre yellow and cobalt blue, a color combo that was highly prized for it’s eccentricity in Victorian America.

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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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  Christopher Dresser / James Couper & Sons Rare Clutha vase c. 1890

  CHRISTOPHER DRESSER (1834-1904) UK

  JAMES COUPER & SONS Glasgow, Scotland

  “Clutha” vase   c. 1890

  Blown strawberry glass

  This Dresser form appears as Linthorpe Pottery model no. 114.

  Illustrated: Truth, Beauty, Power: Dr. Christopher Dresser 1834-1904,exhib. cat. Historical Design, Inc. (New York, 1998) p. 70.

  Rare model.

  H: 5 1/8” x W: 6”